AI Generating One Song In 10 On Deezer

Deezer, a music streaming service, reported on Friday that one in ten tracks being uploaded to the streaming service each day are fake or just noise.

The company’s fraud detection technologies, rolled out in 2023, discovered that “around 10, 000 tracks completely generated by AI are uploaded to the platform every day, representing around 10 percent of the total”, the Paris-based firm said in a statement.

The success of its technologies, which can identify AI content “without the need for extensive training on specific databases”, had led it to seek last month two patents.

Deezer claims that by weeding out fake songs that are then streamed through phony accounts created to remunerate the “artists” it aims to improve the pay of genuine musicians.

Many fake tracks can clone the voices of existing artists, which currently cannot be copyrighted, or copycat popular songs.

Deezer is currently working on a system that will list AI-generated content that is not included in its suggested listening lists.

According to chief executive Alexis Lanternier, “artificial intelligence is continuing to disrupt the music ecosystem more and more.”

In an effort to better compensate artists whose songs have fewer downloads but have a more diverse base of listeners, Deezer announced in January that its remuneration structure would be changed.

Source: Channels TV