Deezer starts labeling AI-generated music to tackle streaming fraud

Deezer announced On Friday it will start with labeling albums with AI-generated songs as part of his efforts to combat streaming fraud.

The company reports that every day about 18% of the music is uploaded than 20,000 numbers-now completely AI-regenerated. Although most of these tracks do not go viral, Deezer says that about 70% of their currents are fake and that they are designed to earn fraudulent royalties.

To combat this, AI-generated tracks on Deezer are now clearly tagged. These numbers also do not appear in editorial playlists or recommendations based on algorithm and fraudulent streams are filtered from royalty payments.

The company says that the new labels will be a game changer to help listeners to determine the difference between music created by people and AI content.

Deezer notes that AI-all-all songs make up only 0.5% of all streams on his platform, but that the trend is growing rapidly.

“In recent months we have only discovered an important increase in the delivery of AI-generated music in recent months and we see no sign that it is delaying. It is a broad issue, and we are committed to help the way in increasing transparency by identifying music fans which albums Ai Music contains,” said Deezer CEEEZER ALEZER in a one press release.

“AI is not inherently good or bad, but we believe that a responsible and transparent approach is the key to building trust with our users and the music industry,” he continued. “We are also clear in our dedication to protect the rights of artists and songwriters at a time when copyright legislation is questioned in favor of training AI models.”

In December 2024, Deezer applied for two patents for his AI detection technology, which according to them is aimed at two different ways to detect ‘unique signatures’ that are used to tell the difference between synthetic content and authentic content.

The relocation comes as Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment reportedly in conversation to permit their work to AI -startups Udio and Suno. The startups are charged by the record companies due to copyright infringement, and every deal would help to arrange lawsuits between them, Bloomberg reported earlier this month.