AI‑Generated Music Surges to 44% of New Uploads on Deezer

Deezer has revealed that 44% of the 170,000 tracks delivered to the service every day are generated by artificial intelligence, a staggering volume that not only shows growing user acceptance for the content, but also threatens to drown out human artists in the process.

Amounting to roughly 75,000 AI tracks daily, this surge represents a massive escalation from just a year ago, when synthetic uploads was just a fringe thing. Yet, breaking that number down a little more, Deezer’s internal analysis indicates that the vast majority of these tracks are not by musicians, but rather tools for streaming fraud. According to the company, up to 85% of fully-AI content streams are detected as fraudulent, orchestrated by bots designed to game the system and siphon royalties away from the pool intended for human creators.

To combat this, the French streaming giant has deployed a proprietary detection system that ...