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

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?

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bluezzbastardzz

Superuser

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

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)

Nina Nebo

Superuser

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

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bluezzbastardzz

Superuser

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:

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)

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Antlerland

Guitar Hero

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.

bluezzbastardzz

Superuser

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.

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)

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JAO1

Rising Star

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:

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vankuyckg

Guitar Hero

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.

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W. Reincke

Roadie

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?

archaic_email

Hitmaker

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.

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gijsvoorhuis

Guitar Hero

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

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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.

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

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