Deezer have launched a tool that detects AI-generated music on playlists from 20 different streaming platforms.
The tool is free and it allows users to establish whether any of the music in a playlist they have created includes material that has been generated using AI technology.
It is available in 27 languages and has been described by Deezer as more than 99 per cent accurate. It identifies “specific artifacts” that AI software leaves behind, and can be used for playlists on a wide range of streamers, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and Soundcloud. Find the tool here.
Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier has said: “By detecting and tagging AI-generated music over the past year and a half, Deezer has been at the forefront of transparency in music streaming. No other company has followed our lead yet, so we decided to make it possible for everyone to check if their playlists include synthetic music, no matter which streaming platform they use.”
“A vast majority of people want to know if AI music is being recommended to them and our data show that nearly half of the users joining Deezer from another platform have AI tracks in their playlists,” he added. “We’re expecting our AI music detector to be an eye-opening experience for listeners around the world.”
Deezer have said their own research shows that 43 per cent of users that joined from other streaming services had AI-generated music in their playlists, and 80 per cent of users want AI-generated tracks to be labelled as such.
Last month, Deezer revealed that 44 per cent of the music now uploaded to its platform is AI-generated, with roughly 75,000 such tracks being added per day. That represented a huge jump from 28 per cent last September, and 10 per cent in January last year.
A Deezer study last November found that 97 per cent of people “can’t tell the difference” between real and AI music.
Last month, Spotify and Universal Music Group signed a new licensing deal that will allow fans to reimagine songs with AI. The tool for Premium users will let them generate AI covers and remixes of licensed tracks from participating artists.
Pope Leo XIV recently called for more stringent regulation of AI, imploring its developers to work for the common good, while Martin Scorsese has been criticised for becoming an advisor for an AI product that will assist in storyboarding in filmmaking.
Backrooms director Kane Parsons, meanwhile, has described AI as “cultural rot” that “defeats the purpose entirely” of creativity, and Jack Antonoff has called AI music creators “godless whores”.
