Deezer Just Rolled Out the World’s First AI Music Tagging System

It’s okay to single out music that wasn’t created by humans.
Music generated by artificial intelligence will never be like music composed by human, but artificial intelligence can help people to improve or modify certain music.

It would be good if other platforms also have tagged AI music .

Great !!! ✔️
That way, no one can feel cheated. Whether they like it or not is another matter, but they can no longer feel cheated.

I think it's a good development from Deezer to add this. This way you remain transparent and honest about what you offer as music.AI is certainly not wrong to use; I also use it occasionally for my work. But as a tool. So I applaud that Deezer has added this option.

Will this also be available for the MacApp at some point? 

I'd really like you to tag it and then remove it from the platform completely. I have plenty of human music to listen to already. I don't need this slop in my life!

Honestly with all the AI thing getting improved in the last 2 years ‘ it’s a welcomed addition . 

Great idea, better still to remove all AI generated music from Deezer completely, let’s keep music real for us humans. 

Big news in the world of streaming: Deezer has become the first platform to clearly label albums that include fully AI-generated tracks. If you’ve been wondering how to tell the difference between human-created music and AI content, this is a game changer.

We have recently launched a powerful AI detection tool, and the results are wild—about 18% of music uploaded each day (over 20,000 tracks!) is now fully AI-generated. While most of these tracks don’t go viral, Deezer found that around 70% of their streams are fake, often uploaded to exploit royalty systems.
 

To fight back, we are taking a bold step:

• AI-generated tracks are now clearly tagged so listeners know what they’re hearing.
• These tracks won’t show up in editorial playlists or algorithm-based recommendations.
• And most importantly, fraudulent streams are being filtered out of royalty payments.
   

 

For now, AI-only songs make up just 0.5% of all streams on Deezer, but the trend is growing fast, and with this new tagging system, Deezer is setting a precedent for how streaming platforms can handle the rise of AI music responsibly.

What do you think? Should other platforms keep it real and tag AI music too?

 

Most definitely, all platforms should tag AI music

Sometimes AI-generated music sounds better, but I don’t support AI in music at all. I’m sure certain platforms famous for their green logo and endless playlists will push AI content to avoid paying royalties 😅

I've never listened to an AI generated track. Has anyone got a link to test ?

See this new release by an AI-generated band called “The Velvet Sundown”:
 

I can see the info about AI content in the web player with English language settings, but I do not see it in my desktop app using German language yet. The mobile apps should also show it.

See also this related article on Music Ally:

The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners - Music Ally

See this new release by an AI-generated band called “The Velvet Sundown”:
 

I can see the info about AI content in the web player with English language settings, but I do not see it in my desktop app using German language yet. The mobile apps should also show it.

For me it shows in Croatian and German and of course in English too

Desktop app or web player? By the way, it is possible to block the artist from being played or recommended both on Deezer and Spotify where I scrobbled it last week from their Discover Weekly playlist. This is how it looks when you have excluded the artist from your recommendations in the Deezer desktop app:

This is how it looks in the Spotify web player when you have enabled “Don’t play this artist” in the dropdown menu:

Just joined Deezer exactly because of this technology. Have 2 months in my premium trial. I can see the “AI-generated content” tag in my iOS app.  

However, I’m not seeing the “AI-generated content” tag like I should in the Mac desktop app in the US. Would really like to see this in all environments.

Then I guess it is not visible in the desktop app, no matter if Windows or macOS, only in the web player and mobile apps.

And offering an option to automatically exclude all AI-generated artists from your recommendations would be nice to have, at the moment you have to do it manually in the dropdown menu on every AI artist profile.

I don’t see any AI tags on this obvious AI artist or any of their songs https://link.deezer.com/s/30s1wWDmFrlYMJNW3I6Oj. It is shown on the album page, but when searching for a song there is no such thing as an AI tag or anything that would make it clear that it is AI generated:

I really like this step. 

Even better, I would love a setting which I could turn on which would prevent any Ai music from ever playing on anything I listen to.  If I want to also hear AI generated stuff I can turn it on (if there are people who would want that) , if not, I turn it off. 

It should make a difference between music generated by AI and the lyrics. It now seems the artist has done no creative effort while I write my own lyrics and heavily review the output generated by AI generators. Yet, some of the songs still get flagged while the lyrics are copyrighted in a sense and there was creative effort done. Is Deezer really telling me that a half decent effort by somebody in their garage is better than writing quality lyrics but using a generator to make the background music?

Just joined Deezer exactly because of this technology. Have 2 months in my premium trial. I can see the “AI-generated content” tag in my iOS app.  

However, I’m not seeing the “AI-generated content” tag like I should in the Mac desktop app in the US. Would really like to see this in all environments.

 

 

It now appears on the desktop app for me now. Running it on MacOs.

Ik ben hier ECHT heel blij mee. is de tool ook duidelijk zichtbaar voor mensen die slechtziend zijn, zoals ik. misschien ben ik te snel, t is net gelanceerd. AI kan mensen helpen, met creeren, autotune ook. Beide aspecten niet meer tegen te houden, maar heb er moeite. Ronnieflex op northsea jazz pff

Een AI uitschakellnop ik zou dat willen. in the end ook gunstig voor de creatief culturele waarde van

Deezer en andere streamers

Please add an option to opt out of all AI generated music at the account level.

The problem with the AI tool is that it is identifying a song as entirely AI-Generated, when it is not.  A song where the songwriter has created a melody and lyrics, then had AI to cover the song, is not being considered when using this tool.  All the many hours and money spent generating the tracks, choosing the instruments, the vibe, the vocals, the harmonies, the tempo, the key, replacements, downloading the stems and using a DAW to fix any sound issues, adding human background vocals.  I have a song which I wrote and had copyrighted by the US Copyright office, a few years ago, spent a lot of money trying to get a human to sing and play it right, and never could get it to sound the way I wanted it.  But when AI came along, I inserted my music and my vocals into the AI website and asked it to a cover of my song.  I was amazed at how great it sounded, then I made it sound a lot better in my Daw and added my own voice/ harmony to it.  One song took me five days to do this.  I’ve spent hundreds of dollars to singers, who think they are stars, but took my song and sang it without feeling, messing up singing certain words and never fixed them, which was a total waste of time and money.  Using the AI, I can choose the vocal and replace any bad parts without being ripped off by some singer, or even a musician, with a bigger ego than actual talent.  So Deezer puts a label on my song, AI Generated, as if my entire song has been somehow magically created out of thin air by AI.  Absolutely ridiculous.  I understand how some might have AI to generate lyrics, then plop those into an AI generator and get a song, but that’s crap.  That’s people who don’t have a clue about songwriting generating pure crap.  But real songwriters, as I am, can use AI as a tool to write great songs that actually sound better than most of what is on the radio today.  So it is very offensive to me that my songs are being labeled as fully AI-generated, when it is my lyrics, my melody, but covered by AI. Saying otherwise, is ripping me off as an artist.  And then to try and deny me royalties for that song, is ridiculous.  I can understand how this can easily become a legal battle.  Rather than just plopping a label on someone’s song, why not ask the artist what all they invested into the song, and what part is AI assisted.  So your great “tool” Deezer is going to get you some lawsuits, for sure.  They act like every song is fully AI generated, when a producer might just use one instruments or background vocals, and the rest can be live.  Saying it is fully AI generated is stealing the rightful copyright from the songwriter, for the parts that was human created.  You need to adjust your “tool” Deezer.  AI is not going away.  I think the best thing is for there to be a Billboard music chart created specifically for AI generated or AI assisted songs/music, paying royalties, which would compete with mainstream human created music.  That’s the only way it’s going to work, since AI is not going anywhere.  It’s too good of a tool to just throw it away, or ban it.  It wasn’t long ago people were ranting about digital photography taking over, and so now it’s AI music.  lol  People can be so close-minded. Nothing wrong with embracing it all, just as long as it is fair too all.  

Concerning an option to remove all AI-generated content from your recommendations the Deezer software already does that automatically according to their related press release. So an extra button in your settings is not necessary, but you can still exclude the artists manually from your recommendations on their artist pages if you want to. Maybe showing the same notice about being AI-generated on the artist profile would make checking easier or quicker though. For example this Monday I checked the 30 new tracks in my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist for AI-generated content in Deezer opening their album pages and found at least four tracks while others “looked suspicious”, too, but were not marked as AI by Deezer. These were blues and blues rock tracks, by the way, some pretending to be old.

I think we have a problem to tag AI generated songs. I’ll give you an example to have a look at. My feedback is purely on Deezer mobile app version 11.0.0 on IOS.

Artist name is Enlly Blue.    
1) When I check its “softly floating” album page, it is clearly tagged “AI-generated content. But I can’t see that tag on the song itself. It is a very big problem if you are listening to playlists or shuffling.

2) AI-generated content” is not added into album page of singles. For example Enlly Blue - Through my soul. 
I highly suggest you to have a look at that. I don’t wanna see any AI content on my subscription. You may add that option into DEEZER setup settings, for example “exclude AI generated content, that would be fantastic improvement. This will enable the customers to choose whatever we want during the set-up.