Deezer Says 44% of Songs Uploaded To Its Platform Daily Are AI-Generated
(Monday April 20, 2026 @05:00PM (BeauHD)
from the would-you-look-at-that dept.)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/04/20/1947211/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated
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Deezer says AI-generated songs [1]now make up 44% of all new uploads to its platform , with nearly 75,000 arriving each day and more than two million per month. The company notes that consumption of these tracks is still very low, "between 1-3% of the total streams," and 85% are flagged as fraudulent. TechCrunch reports:
> The latest figure from Deezer highlights a continuous surge in AI-generated music uploads to the platform. Deezer reported receiving around 60,000 AI tracks per day in January, up from 50,000 in November, 30,000 in September, and just 10,000 in January 2025, when it first launched its AI-music detection tool.
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> Songs tagged as AI-generated on Deezer are automatically removed from algorithmic recommendations and not included in editorial playlists. The company announced today that it will no longer store hi-res versions of AI tracks.
"AI-generated music is now far from a marginal phenomenon and as daily deliveries keep increasing, we hope the whole music ecosystem will join us in taking action to help safeguard artists' rights and promote transparency for fans," said Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier in a [2]press release . "Thanks to our technology and the proactive measures we put in place more than a year ago, we have shown that it's possible to reduce AI-related fraud and payment dilution in streaming to a minimum."
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated/
[2] https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/04/ai-generated-tracks-represent-44-of-new-uploaded-music/
> The latest figure from Deezer highlights a continuous surge in AI-generated music uploads to the platform. Deezer reported receiving around 60,000 AI tracks per day in January, up from 50,000 in November, 30,000 in September, and just 10,000 in January 2025, when it first launched its AI-music detection tool.
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> Songs tagged as AI-generated on Deezer are automatically removed from algorithmic recommendations and not included in editorial playlists. The company announced today that it will no longer store hi-res versions of AI tracks.
"AI-generated music is now far from a marginal phenomenon and as daily deliveries keep increasing, we hope the whole music ecosystem will join us in taking action to help safeguard artists' rights and promote transparency for fans," said Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier in a [2]press release . "Thanks to our technology and the proactive measures we put in place more than a year ago, we have shown that it's possible to reduce AI-related fraud and payment dilution in streaming to a minimum."
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated/
[2] https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/04/ai-generated-tracks-represent-44-of-new-uploaded-music/
Freelancer Sites the Same (Score:2)
by iamhigh ( 1252742 )
I put in a request for work on a freelancer site recently. For an amount that would have got a good response pre AI, probably 100-200 submissions.
This time I got over 3000. Almost all AI - and almost all were botted responses that I bet the "designer" never even knew were submitted.
Fortunately a few people still know how to use photoshop.
AI music (Score:2)
by MrDiablerie ( 533142 )
We had a good run humans.
just AI or encoded messages? (Score:2)
by Fly Swatter ( 30498 )
With so much slop piling up, how would anyone know?
Artist's rights? (Score:2)
by nospam007 ( 722110 ) *
AI will REPLACE artists and hopefully the stupid 'Intellectual property' and 'copyright' with it.
Sturgeon's law (Score:2)
Deezer is almost half-way to "90 percent of everything is crap". How far behind can the rest of the world be?
Re: (Score:2)
Sturgeon's Law has always been true, and 90% of music has always been crap. But we don't always agree on which 10% is uncrap.
AI has the capability of moving the 90% up to 95% or 99%, sadly. Current AI is great at rehashing the input into different variants, but truly new things (which are any good) are purely accidental, and AI cannot tell when it produces new, good things.