Music licensing service Audiio told its users on 30 March that it will not carry AI-generated music, PetaPixel reported. Chief executive Joshua Read wrote that AI can speed up creative work, but that making the music itself is a line it cannot cross. Generative tools can copy a style or a pattern, he argued, but cannot supply the lived experience that lifts a track. PetaPixel noted that Audiio sponsors its YouTube channel.
The email followed Google's announcement a week earlier of Lyria 3 Pro, a model it says can produce tracks up to three minutes long. Read said Audiio will stick to human-made music and is using AI detection so licensees can trust that every track came from a person.
Rival Epidemic Sound took the same line late last year, saying it would stay with music by real artists and keep adjusting how it pays them. Both firms still use AI elsewhere: Audiio Voices and Epidemic Voices are AI voice tools, built with voice artists who were paid for their part. Read framed the stance as protecting the part of creativity machines cannot replace, not as a rejection of technology.
PetaPixel's view is that generated music threatens the core business of stock-music libraries, which helps explain why both draw the line at songs rather than at AI in general.
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