Deezer just gave Spotify a great opportunity to combat the AI music wave here's why the platform is making its AI-detection tool available to rivals

Date:
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:08:09 +0000

Description:
Deezer has been tagging AI-generated content for a year, and now it's encouraging its competitors to do the same.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Deezer is making its AI-detection tool commercially available for rivals such as Spotify Additionally, Deezer has announced that it's cracking down on demonetizing 85% of AI music streams to give real artists a fair share of royalties While it's great for flagging unwanted AI slop, it's run into one setback that Spotify has addressed previously

Deezer is one of the few among the best music streaming services thats actively combatting AI-generated music by clearly tagging songs in the app
for user visibility and now its making its AI-detection tool commercially available to rival platforms.

Last year, Deezer rolled out its flagship tool that detects and flags AI-generated tracks after reporting that over 30% of new music on the
platform was AI-generated . Now Deezer is offering this functionality to
other platforms in the industry, including Spotify , after seeing a great interest in both our approach and our tool said Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier.

With AI singers such as Sienna Rose on the rise, Deezer said in its announcement that it wants to encourage industry wide transparency. While it hasnt yet shared details of how it will make its technology available to
other services, or what it will cost, Deezer is certainly confident that it can do the job.

Director of Research at Deezer, Manuel Moussallam, says that according to the companys own tests the tool has an accuracy of 99.8%, and can detect fully AI-generated music created using models such as Suno and Udio.

Additionally, Deezer is doubling down on its efforts to demonetize AI music
so that legitimate artists can be paid royalties fairly. One of the main motives behind uploading AI-generated music is to generate revenue streams, and according to the music platform, Up to 85% of all streams on AI-generated music are now being detected as fraudulent.

Deezer isn't the only service cracking down on AI music. Bandcamp recently banned AI from its service, ad it's led to Spotify users complaining that the streaming giant is failing to tackle the rise of 'AI slop' . However, Deezer could run into an issue that Spotify has wrestled with for some time. Drawing the line can be difficult

While Spotify does have its own measures in place to prevent AI music from flooding the UI, theres a reason why it doesnt clearly label AI-generated music in the way that Deezer does. This is down to creative choices on the artists behalf, which is something that Deezers AI-detection tool doesnt pick up on.

Though AI in music creation is generally frowned on by artists, it doesnt necessarily mean there arent musicians out there who use it as a creative
tool to enhance only certain aspects of a song.

Canadian artist Grimes, known for her art pop, electronic, and experimental music, is just one example of a musician who has openly embraced the use of
AI as a way to be creative. Her 2025 song Artificial Angels is an example because, though its not entirely AI-generated, it still has elements of AI-generated vocals which book-end the song but its not flagged as AI-generated content in Deezer.

So while Deezers detection tool is revolutionary for cleaning out unwanted music that's entirely AI-generated, it may not work in the case of artists such as Grimes, even if listeners want to avoid songs that have even just a smidge of AI-generated elements.

Whether platforms like Spotify and Apple Music will take Deezer up on its offer remains to be see, but this is a potentially significant development
for the music-streaming industry.

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