- Deezer is making its AI-detection tool commercially available for rivals such as Spotify
- Additionally, Deezer has announced that it's cracking down on demonetizing 85% of AI music streams to give real artists a fair share of royalties
- While it's great for flagging unwanted AI slop, it's run into one setback that Spotify has addressed previously
Deezer is one of the few among the best music streaming services that’s actively combatting AI-generated music by clearly tagging songs in the app for user visibility – and now it’s making its AI-detection tool commercially available to rival platforms.
Last year, Deezer rolled out its flagship tool that detects and flags AI-generated tracks after reporting that over 30% of new music on the platform was AI-generated. Now Deezer is offering this functionality to other platforms in the industry, including Spotify, after seeing “a great interest in both our approach and our tool” said Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier.
With AI ‘singers’ such as Sienna Rose on the rise, Deezer said in its announcement that it wants to “encourage industry wide transparency”. While it hasn’t yet shared details of how it will make its technology available to other services, or what it will cost, Deezer is certainly confident that it can do the job.
Director of Research at Deezer, Manuel Moussallam, says that according to the company’s own tests the tool “has an accuracy of 99.8%”, and can detect fully AI-generated music created using models such as Suno and Udio.
Additionally, Deezer is doubling down on its efforts to demonetize AI music so that legitimate artists can be paid royalties fairly. One of the main motives behind uploading AI-generated music is to generate revenue streams, and according to the music platform, “Up to 85% of all streams on AI-generated music” are now being “detected as fraudulent”.
Deezer isn't the only service cracking down on AI music. Bandcamp recently banned AI from its service, ad it's led to Spotify users complaining that the streaming giant is failing to tackle the rise of 'AI slop'. However, Deezer could run into an issue that Spotify has wrestled with for some time.
Drawing the line can be difficult
While Spotify does have its own measures in place to prevent AI music from flooding the UI, there’s a reason why it doesn’t clearly label AI-generated music in the way that Deezer does. This is down to creative choices on the artist’s behalf, which is something that Deezer’s AI-detection tool doesn’t pick up on.
Though AI in music creation is generally frowned on by artists, it doesn’t necessarily mean there aren’t musicians out there who use it as a creative tool to enhance only certain aspects of a song.
Canadian artist Grimes, known for her art pop, electronic, and experimental music, is just one example of a musician who has openly embraced the use of AI as a way to be creative. Her 2025 song Artificial Angels is an example because, though it’s not entirely AI-generated, it still has elements of AI-generated vocals which book-end the song – but it’s not flagged as ‘AI-generated content’ in Deezer.
So while Deezer’s detection tool is revolutionary for cleaning out unwanted music that's entirely AI-generated, it may not work in the case of artists such as Grimes, even if listeners want to avoid songs that have even just a smidge of AI-generated elements.
Whether platforms like Spotify and Apple Music will take Deezer up on its offer remains to be see, but this is a potentially significant development for the music-streaming industry.
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