We're purists. As long as a piece was written by a human being, the vocals are human and the instrumentalists are humans, it is eligible for certification. Learn more in our terms and conditions.

If the song was written by a human without Generative AI help, it is still eligible for certification, and certification is recommended since a cover is still a new piece of art. Humanable certifies humanity, not originality.

Great! As long as it was written by a human, it is eligible. Humanable certifies parts of songs, full songs, uncut songs, demos and fully cut, recorded songs, as long as they are fully human.

Certifying your music with Humanable is a great way to establish credibility at the beginning of your career. If you're a Humanable member, you can pitch yourself as a Humanable artist and provide your Humanable song numbers, so everyone, including labels and publishers, know that they’re not taking a risk that your art is robot art and will complicate their licensing and royalty business models.

You can, but we wouldn't certify it. Humanable certified music is 100% human-made, free from generative AI.

You can, but we wouldn't certify it. Humanable certified music is 100% human-made, free from generative AI. This means instrumentalists too. The Humanable movement leaves no human behind. However, if you are only certifying a song, and NOT a master for distribution, the melody and lyrics must be created only by a human, but for demonstration purposes only, AI is permissible for instrumentation. The demo could NOT be converted to a master and could not be certified by Humanable. (bold and underline just to draw attention to the change).

Not at all. There are plenty of AI tools out there for music that are not Generative AI. In other words, AI tools that don't create the song or master itself are OK. We would be happy to answer questions about specific AI tools. Just write us at welcome@humanable.com and let us know what you are thinking of using. We'll give you a quick thumbs up or down on whether or not we could still certify your song or master.

Yes, if you are an active Humanable member and your social media, cover art, etc. is promoting only Humanable-certified songs. We are happy to answer any questions you may have about your ability to use the Humanable marks. Just write to us at welcome@humanable.com and we'll get right back to you.

Merch bearing the Humanable marks are sold on the Humanable store. If you have a special situation in which you would like to use our marks on merch, e.g. hats, t-shirts, etc., please reach out at welcome@humanable.com to coordinate. We may or may not be able to grant permission, but we will do our best to accommodate special use cases. Extra charges may apply.

No, we love Randy and we want him to be able to support his family and keep making music. There are ethical uses of Generative AI. But we wouldn't certify that song since it is not 100% human-made. We expect Randy would understand what we are trying to accomplish in the marketplace. He's one of the good guys.

We don't choose sides, we just choose humans. We believe that the marketplace of ideas is important. In the meantime, we'll keep certifying human-only music and try to preserve a clean copyright and royalty stream for the artists who join us.

Our requirements are that you must be ‘reasonably certain’ that Generative AI was not used in the creation of a song or master. The best avenue is to get confirmation from them, that they as humans fully wrote their share of the song, or sang their share of a master. If you were physically together writing the song or in the studio, there would be no question as to its authenticity. If you have written or recorded separately, ask the question so you can affirm the song or master has no Generative AI in the process of creation.