Deezer Deploys AI Music Detector Across Rival Streaming Platforms
· Terrence O’Brien
Deezer is done waiting for the rest of the music industry to join its fight against AI generated tracks.…
Deezer is done waiting for the rest of the music industry to join its fight against AI generated tracks. The streaming service announced it will now scan your playlists on other platforms to find synthetic music. If you give Deezer access, it will tell you which songs on your Spotify, Apple Music, or Qobuz playlists were likely made by an AI.
Deezer was the first major service to label AI generated music and even offered its detection tech to competitors. So far, nobody took the deal. While Qobuz built its own detection system, Apple and Spotify went with a voluntary tagging approach, meaning AI tracks only get flagged if the uploader admits it. That leaves plenty of room for fakes to slip through.
"No other company has followed our lead yet, so we decided to make it possible for everyone to check if their playlists include synthetic music, no matter which streaming platform they use," CEO Alexis Lanternier said in a press release. The idea is straightforward: since the industry won't unite around a single standard, Deezer will give users the tools to police their own libraries.
This matters because AI generated music is flooding streaming platforms faster than anyone can track it. Some of it is harmless novelty, but a lot is being used to clog up royalty pools or impersonate real artists. Deezer's move puts pressure on rivals to either adopt similar transparency measures or risk looking like they are hiding something. For now, the ball is in Apple and Spotify's court.