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

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

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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. 
 

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. 
 

 

I just checked that artist in the desktop app, and all of her releases (albums, EPs and singles) are marked as AI-generated except that one single in your screenshot. So I guess this somehow slipped through when checking with Deezer’s software which should not happen of course:

Thanks for this. This decision is what caused me to switch from Spotify after 10 years of being a premium sub there. 

How can I report AI? I just came across couple of songs that are clearly made with AI, arn`t tagged and I haven`t found a way to report it. 

I agree. I’m dealing with the same problem. I compose my songs in ACE Studio using my guitar and my (admittedly bad) vocals. Then I enhance everything with AI. My vocals turn into something beautiful, and the melody and chords still sound like what I actually played on my guitar.

I use a stem splitter to remove all the AI guitars, replace them with my own recordings, and then mix everything together in Studio One. And even after all that, my music still gets flagged as AI‑generated. It feels like a slap in the face.

I don’t have many listeners… zero on Deezer, but still. It hurts. I contacted Deezer support, and they basically did nothing. The AI label stays. According to Deezer, Cynthia & The Digital Bunnies (grunge) is “fake,” even though I’m very real.

And yeah, I’ve tried finding a bass player, drummer, and female vocalist, but musicians in Amsterdam seem only interested in playing covers, not original grunge.

I compose, arrange, record, mix and master without any AI. Almost 40years of experience and learning multiple instruments makes my music unique and deeply personal. I hope you understand how insulting your egoistic ignorant stance is when describing your output process. AI is stealing and in no way your own. The only reason it sounds genericaly “good” is while it steals from stolen datasets from other human artists. Also, my question is HOW to report AI, not why you choose slop.