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Deezer reports a surge in AI-generated music uploads, attributing the growth to efforts to manipulate royalties. The streaming service has implemented new detection tools to combat this trend and maintain fair play in the industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Deezer has said that AI-generated music now accounts for 44% of the tracks uploaded to its platform each day, a surge that the streaming service says is being driven largely by attempts to game the royalty system rather than by demand from listeners. According to reporting from TechCrunch and Engadget, that figure amounts to roughly 75,000 tracks a day and more than two million uploads a month, while AI-made songs still represent only around 1% to 3% of total streams.<\/p>\n
The Paris-based company said it has built a patent-pending detection system that identifies synthetic tracks, removes them from algorithmic recommendations and keeps them out of editorial playlists. Deezer says it is already demonetising most of the suspicious uploads it catches, and that anything flagged as AI-generated is clearly labelled for users. In a statement quoted by the company, Deezer said the aim is to stop such tracks from materially affecting the royalty pool.<\/p>\n
The new figures mark a sharp rise from June last year, when Deezer said AI-generated uploads made up 18% of daily additions and that 70% of the streams on those tracks appeared fraudulent, according to TechCrunch. Since then, Deezer has expanded the use of its detection tool and, earlier this year, made it available to other platforms as it sought to position the system as an industry-wide response to streaming fraud. TechCrunch reported in January that the tool can identify music created by major generators such as Suno and Udio and that French collecting society Sacem had adopted it.<\/p>\n
The broader music business is still trying to draw a line between legitimate AI-assisted creation and content designed to flood services with low-value material. Warner Music Group\u2019s settlement with Udio and its licensing deal with the company, reported by TechCrunch in November, showed that some labels are beginning to strike commercial arrangements around AI music rather than fighting it outright. At the same time, Google has added music-generation features to Gemini, with AI outputs watermarked through SynthID, underlining how quickly synthetic music tools are entering the mainstream even as streaming services tighten their defences.<\/p>\n
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