AI-generated music is a simple reality in 2025, and presents a competition problem to human producers looking to get their music heard on streaming platforms. Deezer is looking to tackle this problem by integrating AI detection software into its platform, and has already discovered that around 10,000 fully AI-generated songs are being uploaded every day. This amounts to 10% of Deezer’s daily uploads.
In response, Deezer is not removing the content, but is sidelining all AI-generated music from its algorithmic recommendations.
“As artificial intelligence continues to increasingly disrupt the music ecosystem, with a growing amount of AI content flooding streaming platforms like Deezer, we are proud to have developed a cutting-edge tool that will increase transparency for creators and fans alike,” says Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier. “Generative AI has the potential to positively impact music creation and consumption, but its use must be guided by responsibility and care in order to safeguard the rights and revenues of artists and songwriters.”
Deezer has been developing this tool for roughly a year to detect AI-generated content from a wide variety of datasets including well-known AI models such as Suno and Udio. With this foundation, it can easily integrate detection tools for other AI models as long as it has examples of data from them.
“We set out to create the best AI detection tool on the market, and we have made incredible progress in just one year,” says Aurélien Hérault, Deezer’s Chief Innovation Officer. “Tools that are on the market today can be highly effective as long as they are trained on data sets from a specific generative AI model, but the detection rate drastically decreases as soon as the tool is subjected to a new model or new data. We have addressed this challenge and created a tool that is significantly more robust and applicable to multiple models.”
This is not the first time Deezer has taken a strong stance against AI. In October 2024, it was the only streaming service to add its name to the global statement on AI training, which reads:
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”
Learn more via the Deezer Newsroom.
