One in ten tracks delivered on Deezer is either noise or fake songs generated by artificial intelligence (AI), announced the French music streaming platform on Friday, which has implemented a “cutting-edge tool” to detect them.
"Approximately 10,000 fully AI-generated tracks are delivered to the platform each day, representing about 10% of the daily content," stated Deezer in a press release.
This conclusion follows a year of deploying in-house technology designed to “specifically detect AI-generated content.”
Deezer aims to better compensate artists by removing such parasitic content. People who upload these tracks, without being musicians, can claim payment, while only artificially created user accounts listen to them.
The new tool can detect artificially created music from various generative models, such as Suno and Udio, with the ability to add detection capabilities for virtually any similar tool, provided there are some sample tracks.
“AI continues to disrupt the music ecosystem more and more, with an increasing amount of AI content,” remarked Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier in the statement.
He added that “Generative AI has the potential to positively impact music creation and consumption, but its use must be guided by responsibility to protect the rights and income of artists and songwriters. We plan to develop a tagging system for fully AI-generated content and exclude it from algorithmic and editorial recommendations.”
Deezer, available in over 180 countries, also aims to “continue developing its technology to include the detection of deepfake-generated voices,” which are indistinguishable to the human ear.
Spotify has also reported similar problems.
