AI disclosure, explained
The three AI disclosures Run collects, what the four levels mean, the separate question on each credited person, and why disclosure is never a penalty.
Answer Artwork once for the release, then Recording and Songwriting on every track. Each credited person also needs an answer about their own contribution. All of these answers are required to submit.
Disclosure is not a penalty. Every level on the scale is accepted and distributed, fully AI-generated music included. What Run refuses is not a level: it is conduct, such as cloning a real singer’s voice or passing a release off as someone else’s. See Run’s AI policy for that list.
The three disclosures
| Disclosure | Where you answer it | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Artwork | Release section, next to the cover | The cover image only |
| Recording | Every track, under AI disclosure | The sound recording: performance, vocals, instruments, production |
| Songwriting | Every track, under AI disclosure | The composition: melody, lyrics and structure |
Artwork is one answer for the whole release. The other two are answered on each track separately, because the two are genuinely different questions: a song you wrote yourself can be performed by an AI voice, and a fully generated instrumental can carry lyrics you wrote by hand.
View full-sizeThe four levels
All three disclosures use the same four-step scale.
| Level | What it means | Example |
|---|---|---|
| None | No AI anywhere in that part of the work | You played and sang the track, and mixed it yourself |
| AI-assisted | AI tools helped, but did not generate any part of the work | An AI mastering or noise-removal tool, AI stem separation, a synth preset engine |
| Partly AI | AI generated material portions of the work | The second verse vocal is generated; the rest is you. Or AI wrote the hook lyric |
| Fully AI | The whole of that part is AI-generated | You generated the recording from a prompt and released it as it came out |
The line between AI-assisted and Partly AI is whether anything a listener hears was generated. A tool that cleans up, masters or reshapes something you performed is assistance. A vocal, melody, beat or lyric section that came out of a model is a material portion, even if it is eight bars long.
Answer for the version you are releasing. If you generated ten drafts and then re-sang the whole thing, the recording you are delivering is what the disclosure describes.
The question on each credited person
Song credits carry their own, separate AI question, one answer per person, describing that person’s own contribution rather than the track:
- Human: they did their part themselves.
- Human + AI: they used AI in their part.
- Fully AI: their part was generated.
One rule follows from it: at least one credited person on a track must not be marked fully AI. A track where every credit is fully AI does not submit. Someone chose the prompt, picked the take and decided it was finished, and that person belongs in the credits. Credits, contributors and publishing splits covers how credits work.
Keep the two consistent. If a credit says AI was involved while both of that track’s disclosures say None, the checks raise it for a reviewer.
What the checks do with your answers
- Missing disclosures block the submission: the artwork answer at release level, both answers on every track.
- A credit marked as AI-involved against two “None” disclosures is flagged for a person to look at.
- A track that discloses Partly AI or Fully AI audio without a voice or likeness consent document on file goes to a reviewer. The disclosure alone does not say whether a real person’s voice is involved, so a person checks.
- Titles in the “AI cover” or “AI voice” format fail the checks outright. That phrasing is the marketing format of voice-clone releases. The vaguer “AI version” and “AI remix” wording is flagged for a reviewer instead.
- “In the style of” in a title fails the checks, with or without AI.
Where the answers go
Your disclosures travel with the release when we deliver it. What each store does with them after that is that store’s own policy, and stores are the ones setting the AI rules they enforce, which is why a wrong answer is worth correcting rather than leaving.
One consequence inside Run: a track whose recording is disclosed as Fully AI cannot be opted into Content ID. See choosing stores and Content ID.
Changing a disclosure after delivery
Settle these before you submit. Changing an AI disclosure on a release that is already out is not a quiet metadata edit: it sends the release back through a fresh review in our distribution pipeline, and availability on the stores can be affected while that review runs. It is also not a self-serve edit, because a delivered release is locked. Open a support request.
Tell us anyway if an answer was wrong. An honest correction is always better than a wrong disclosure sitting on a live release.