Deezer’s new tool can recognize AI music from Spotify, Apple Music and more

As AI-generated music continues to rise on streaming services, concerns are growing about how AI companies use copyrighted material to train their models, as well as how potential manipulations of streaming systems could lead to fraud.

However, many music streaming services have yet to launch AI-powered music detection tools. So, streaming company Deezer took matters into its own hands.

In an ongoing effort to address this issue, Deezer has introduced a tool that scans playlists from various streaming platforms to identify AI-generated tracks. Announced on Thursday, the free online AI music detector supports 27 languages ​​and gives users from 20 of the most popular platforms a chance to see if their playlists include any AI-generated songs.

This launch positions Deezer as one of the most aggressive opponents of AI music in the music industry, which could be a selling point for its service among consumers. While competitors like Apple Music and Spotify have opted for a tagging approach, Deezer is actively removing AI tracks from recommendations and excluding them from editorial playlists. It has also recently begun offering its AI detection technology to competing platforms.

To use the new tool, go to Deezer’s AI Music Detector website, select your streaming service, and allow Deezer to access your playlists. Once you import your playlists, the service scans the AI ​​content, notifies you of any results, and even offers the option to share the results. The tool is compatible with Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and YouTube Music, among other platforms.

“By discovering 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 in our footsteps yet, so we decided to make it possible for everyone to check if their playlists include synthetic music, no matter what streaming platform they use,” CEO Alexis Lanternier said in a statement.

It is worth noting that the company revealed in today’s announcement that it is carefully considering future steps, such as updating supplier policies or removing content. This would follow in the footsteps of Bandcamp, which banned AI music earlier this year.

The launch of the new tool comes on the heels of Deezer revealing that a staggering 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform is produced by artificial intelligence.

The company is currently fed approximately 75,000 AI-generated audio clips daily, which totals more than two million each month. Despite this influx, the listening rate of AI-generated music is still relatively low, accounting for only 1-3% of total streams. About 85% of these flows are flagged as fraudulent and canceled by the platform.