Announcing our newly certified models (including LLM & speech) and new supporters

We’re pleased to announce that five more companies have been granted our Fairly Trained Licensed Model certification, and we have four new industry Supporters.

With this new batch of companies, we’re particularly excited to be expanding into two new modalities: language and voice. KL3M, from 273 Ventures, is our first certified large language model; and Voicemod is our first certified company offering AI speech and singing models. We’re also excited to welcome Infinite Album and Lemonaide, two music companies using generative AI; and Frostbite Orckings - our first certified AI band - from Musical Bits. We encourage you to check out their products!

Expanding the Fairly Trained certification into text and speech generation is a significant milestone, because it shows that it’s possible to train generative AI models in a fairer way in any creative field. One of the most frequent questions we were asked when we launched in January was whether it was realistic to think that we would be able to certify any large language models. We were optimistic that we would, as there is no fundamental reason that large language model developers can’t work in a way that respects creators’ rights. Today’s announcement answers this question, and strengthens our belief in a future in which a fair approach to training data is the norm.

We’re also honored to welcome The Authors Guild, SAG-AFTRA, Music Managers Forum - US, and the American Society for Collective Rights Licensing as Supporters of Fairly Trained. Mary Rasenberger, CEO of The Authors Guild, said: "The Authors Guild is pleased to support the Fairly Trained certification scheme for generative AI models. Too many generative AI companies exploit copyrighted work without permission. The certification incentivizes AI companies to train on licensed data and centers human creators in the AI landscape. It is an important step towards ensuring human authors have consent and receive compensation from the use of their works in AI training.”

Generative AI can exist without exploiting copyrighted work without permission. We’re pleased that we continue to meet and certify great AI companies and developers who prove this.

If you have a generative AI model or product that doesn’t rely on scraped data and you’re interested in getting certified, please get in touch.