AI-generated content continues to flood streaming platforms

April 16 (Reuters) - About 18% of songs uploaded to Deezer (DEEZR.PA), opens new tab are fully generated by AI, the French streaming platform said on Wednesday, underscoring the technology’s growing use amid copyright risks and concerns about fair payouts to artists.

Deezer said more than 20,000 AI-generated tracks are uploaded on its platform each day, which is nearly twice the number reported four months ago.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-music-accounts-18-all-tracks-uploaded-deezer-2025-04-16/

https://newsroom-deezer.com/2025/04/deezer-reveals-18-of-all-new-music-uploaded-to-streaming-is-fully-ai-generated/

Torben

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Personally I try my best to avoid playing any AI generated music but it seems to be getting more difficult to do so. I don’t want to support non-human music. Artists need to eat. However, the creators are getting good at hiding the source generation.

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And how can one tell? I explore a lot of Qobuz new releases and am always finding new artists that don’t have a history… maybe a Bandcamp profile. I just don’t know.

I recommend Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine if one wants to dig into this topic.

I think we should all avoid AI generated music because LLM’s had to train off human generated music so all of the content has a copyright issue.

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