SceneTown is a platform for human music. AI can help people make things — it doesn't get to impersonate them, and it doesn't get to be invisible. This page explains what we do today and the standard we're building toward.
Every music upload requires an AI-involvement declaration before publishing: none, AI-assisted, or AI-generated. Fully AI-generated music is not accepted on SceneTown. The declaration is recorded as a provenance attestation, and a false attestation violates our terms.
Work registered through CLEAR gets a cryptographic content fingerprint attested on Base — a public chain we don't control. If you doubt us, you can verify the record without trusting us.
When you interact with AI on SceneTown (like Scenie), we say so before or at first use. Our Privacy Policy names the AI providers we use and what they can and cannot do with your data — including that we don't use private AI conversations to train a SceneTown foundation model.
Media that SceneTown itself generates with AI — like agent avatars — is recorded as AI-generated in our compliance ledger at the moment of creation, not left to guesswork.
Uploaded media is signed with a C2PA Content Credentials manifest carrying the work's provenance identifier and AI declaration — provenance that travels with the file when it leaves SceneTown.
Drop a file on /trust/verify and each layer reports what it read: an exact-file match against our records, the in-file manifest, the inaudible watermark, and the public record on Base — with real latency shown. Fingerprint matching is not live yet, and the page says so rather than pretending.
Every declaration, label change, and signing event lands in an append-only, hash-chained compliance ledger. Each day's ledger is sealed with a cryptographic fingerprint attested on Base and mirrored to immutable storage — evidence we could hand a regulator, not just a policy page.
We're building provenance in four independent layers — a signed manifest in the file, an inaudible watermark in the audio, an acoustic fingerprint registry, and an on-chain attestation — all resolving to the same identifier. Strip one layer and the others still answer. Two of the four layers are live today; these are in active development:
CLEAR stands for Creation (the record starts the moment a work is made), Lineage (every version connected to its origin), Evidence (declarations and session metadata in a tamper-evident trail), Attestation (records anchored on a public chain), and Rights (proof of who made what — the foundation for ownership and licensing).
Provenance and AI-disclosure actions on SceneTown — declarations, attestations, policy changes — are recorded in an append-only compliance ledger designed to be shown to regulators, not just referenced in policy. We measure ourselves before anyone else has to.
Questions about AI on SceneTown, or something that looks mislabeled? Use our reporting channel or email legal@scenetown.com. For how AI features handle your data, see Privacy → AI features.
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