It has become nearly impossible for listeners to tell the difference between music made by artificial intelligence and tracks created by humans, according to new research.<\/p>\n
A global survey of 9,000 people by polling firm Ipsos, carried out for France-based streaming platform Deezer, found that 97% of respondents could not distinguish between AI-generated and human-made music.<\/p>\n
The results come as a country song featuring an AI-generated male voice, Walk My Walk by Breaking Rust, reached number one on Billboard’s digital sales chart for country songs this week – the first time an AI track has topped the US charts.<\/p>\n
More than half of those surveyed said they felt uncomfortable not being able to tell the difference between human and AI-created music. Over half (51%) believed that AI would lead to more low-quality tracks appearing on streaming platforms, while almost two-thirds feared a decline in creativity.<\/p>\n
Deezer chief executive Alexis Lanternier said the results showed that “people care about music and want to know if they\u2019re listening to AI or human-made tracks”.<\/p>\n
The platform said AI-generated content has surged this year. In January, one in ten tracks streamed each day on Deezer was fully AI-generated; by October, that figure had climbed to more than one in three, or nearly 40,000 tracks daily.<\/p>\n
Eighty percent of respondents said they wanted all AI-generated songs to be clearly labelled. Deezer is currently the only major music-streaming platform that systematically labels fully AI-generated content for users.<\/p>\n
The issue came to wider attention in June when a band called The Velvet Sundown went viral on Spotify, later confirming it was entirely AI-generated. The group\u2019s most popular song has been streamed more than three million times.<\/p>\n
Spotify has since said it will encourage artists and publishers to sign up to a voluntary industry code to disclose the use of AI in music production.<\/p>\n
The Ipsos survey was conducted between 6 and 10 October across eight countries: Brazil, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States.<\/p>\n
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