PARIS: Some 44% of all music tracks newly uploaded to Spotify rival Deezer are now generated by artificial intelligence (AI), the Paris-based streaming service said on Monday.
The platform receives around 75,000 AI-generated tracks every day, which is about 44% of all daily uploads. In just over a year, that figure has risen sharply from 10,000 tracks per day.
Despite the flood of content, actual listener use remains low. Deezer said these songs account for only between 1% and 3% of all streams.
The service attributed this to targeted countermeasures: Deezer labels AI content transparently, excludes it from algorithmic recommendations and has stopped storing high-resolution versions of such tracks.
The streaming service is a pioneer in labelling AI-generated music. Other providers do not yet offer this in the same form.
Deezer chief executive Alexis Lanternier stressed that AI music is no longer a niche phenomenon and urged the industry to protect the rights of real artists. Estimates suggest that by 2028 around 25% of musicians’ income could be threatened by AI.
Deezer pointed to international research, which it says underlines the importance of labelling: 80% of respondents to a recent survey say that AI music must be clearly identified for listeners.
While 97% of participants in a blind test could not hear any difference between software productions and human music, a majority nevertheless opposed including AI songs in the official charts. – dpa
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