PARIS: Streaming services are increasingly introducing mandatory labelling for AI-generated music, as tools capable of producing fully synthetic songs and even entire albums make it ever harder to tell human-made music from machine-made.
Generators such as Suno and Udio can produce AI music of a quality that many listeners find difficult or impossible to identify as artificial.
To prevent royalties from flowing to those who have not been creatively active but have merely used music generators – and may even have concealed this – streaming providers are also scanning their databases with detection systems.
One such tool is the AI detector developed by French streaming service Deezer. The company offers the tool to other streaming platforms to "promote fairer royalties distribution and mitigate legal risks related to Gen-AI."
For listeners on any streaming service, meanwhile, it has also made it freely available to find out whether – and how many – fully AI-generated tracks are lurking in their playlists.
The process is straightforward: visit the relevant Deezer page, click the "Scan my playlists" button, select your streaming service, connect your account and let the tool scan your playlists. The service is free for up to 100 playlists, after which users receive a breakdown of the results. – dpa
