Policy
AI Music Policy
vlisten is a service operated by Iron Platforms LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in India. In this policy, "vlisten", "we", "us", and "our" refer to Iron Platforms LLP. This page explains in plain language what our Artist FAQ Terms of Service §6.4 requires.
1. The promise
vlisten does not host AI-generated music. Music generated wholly or in substantial part by an AI system is not permitted here — not for sale, not for streaming, not inside a fan tier, not as a free release. Every track on vlisten is made by people.
For one day this page said something softer: that AI music could not be sold here. That was a promise about money. This is a promise about the place. A listener who opens vlisten is listening to people, and an artist who joins is not competing with a prompt.
2. What counts as AI-generated
A release is AI-generated if a vocal, instrument, or composed part in it was produced by an artificial-intelligence system — whether that is the whole track or a single element, and whether or not a person then arranged, mixed, or added to it. If AI did the writing or the performing, it is out.
A release is made by people when the writing and the performance are human. Using AI-assisted tools on that performance is fine and needs no declaration: mixing, mastering, noise reduction, stem separation, restoration, pitch correction and the like. We use such tools ourselves — vlisten separates every upload into stems so listeners can play with them, and analyses tempo, key and mood to power recommendations. The test is not whether software touched the recording. It is whether a person wrote and performed it.
Impersonation is not permitted either. Using AI to imitate another artist's voice, likeness, or identifiable style is out, whatever the underlying performance.
3. What every artist declares
At upload, the artist declares that the release was made by people. That declaration is a warranty under our Terms, not a checkbox. The upload form also offers the honest alternative — "contains AI-generated audio" — and choosing it does one thing: it tells you, before anything is published, that vlisten cannot host the release. Nobody has to lie to find that out.
4. How we check
Every upload is scanned by an automated AI-detection service that recognises output from the major generative music platforms and reports a probability and which part of the recording it concerns. That check runs at a specialist provider rather than on our own machines, so a copy of the recording is sent to them to perform it, and we ask for it to be deleted the moment the result comes back. We should be straight about the limit of that: we do not control their systems, and their published terms do not set out what they retain or whether they train on what they receive. We are seeking that commitment from them in writing, and we will say here what we get. Until then, the honest position is that we ask for deletion and cannot promise on their behalf. We also take reports from listeners and artists, and a person acts on every one.
A detection result never decides anything. When a track is flagged, three things happen: that release's sale is paused, it leaves recommendations and editorial placement, and it goes into a queue for a person to listen to. It stays on the artist's page and plays by link. Nothing is removed, and no record is held against the artist. We tell the artist immediately, in the app and by email, and explain what happens next.
Detectors are wrong sometimes, and a false accusation against a real musician would cost us more than a missed track. So a machine can raise a question here; only a person can answer it. Until a person has, the most a false flag costs a real artist is a few days of discovery.
5. If your track is flagged
You can respond from your Music page: tell us how the track was made, and show us if you can — a project file, a stem, a screenshot of your timeline, a clip from the session. Anything of that kind usually settles it within minutes of a person looking.
Two outcomes are possible:
- Cleared — human-made. Your paused sale resumes at the price you set, the track returns to recommendations, and nothing is recorded against your account. If you had disputed, we say plainly that the flag was our mistake.
- Removed — our review finds the release was AI-generated. It comes down, any earnings from it are reversed, and a strike is recorded. Two strikes may cost upload rights or the account. You may dispute a removal, and a person will look again.
We can reverse either decision if new information warrants it.
6. Why we can keep this promise
Not because our detector is better than anyone else's. Because we know who every artist on vlisten is. Entry is by invitation or a founding key, every artist gives a legal name, an address and a tax residence before any money moves, and payouts go to a named bank account. A content farm cannot pass that at scale, and has no reason to try for a platform where each track has to be sold to one person at a time.
Streaming services receive tens of thousands of AI tracks a day through distributors they cannot refuse, which is why the best of them label and demote rather than remove. We do not have that problem, so we made the stricter promise.
7. Training
We do not licence music uploaded to vlisten for training generative-AI models, and we do not permit others to scrape the Service for that purpose. Audio uploaded here is processed to run the Service — transcoding, analysis, stems, the AI check — and for nothing else. Most of that runs on infrastructure we operate. One step — the AI check — runs at an outside provider, and what that means is set out in section 4: we send the recording for that one purpose and ask for its deletion, and we do not control what they do with it. Our own commitment is unchanged and is entirely within our power to keep: we do not licence your music for training, and we do not permit anyone to scrape the Service for it. Our Privacy Policy says which steps run where.
8. The numbers
Every platform says it is fighting AI slop. Almost none publish what that amounts to. We will publish, on this page, the count of releases scanned, flagged, reviewed by a person, removed, and disputes upheld, updated monthly once sales open.
First report: pending. Paid sales have not opened yet; the first figures will be published in the month after they do.
9. Reporting a track
If you believe something on vlisten is AI-generated, tell us at founders@vlisten.co with a link to the track. A person will listen. If you are the artist and we got it wrong, the same address reaches us, and so does the dispute option on your own Music page.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as detection tools and the law develop. Material changes will be announced to artists in the app. The date at the top of this page always reflects the current version.