{"id":541851,"date":"2026-04-20T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541851\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:10:10","slug":"deezer-says-44-of-new-music-uploads-are-ai-generated-most-streams-are-fraudulent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541851\/","title":{"rendered":"Deezer says 44% of new music uploads are AI-generated, most streams are fraudulent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still, listeners shouldn\u2019t encounter AI music organically on Deezer because the site won\u2019t include AI-flagged tracks in suggestions or editorial playlists. As a result, AI music streams account for a small share of Deezer usage, hovering around 1\u20133 percent. The company says the primary purpose of uploading all this AI music is fraudulent. Deezer only pays for streams when a person listens to them, so it\u2019s demonetizing about 85 percent of AI music streams.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to our technology and the proactive measures we put in place more than a year ago, we have shown that it\u2019s possible to reduce AI-related fraud and payment dilution in streaming to a minimum,\u201d said Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier.<\/p>\n

The AI goes to 11<\/p>\n

The growth of AI music is likely to continue accelerating with the rest of the AI industry. Models like Google\u2019s Lyria 3<\/a> have become cheaper and more widely available. Google actually lets Gemini users generate full-length songs now, up from 30-second snippet tracks just a few months ago. Suno and Udio also promote their ability to create broadcast-ready tracks in seconds. However, these mainstream options embed watermarks, like Google\u2019s SynthID, to flag the songs as AI.<\/p>\n

The problem is how easy it is becoming to strip those watermarks out of the audio and generate music using custom models that don\u2019t have them in the first place. As AI inference becomes cheaper, so, too, does the creation of musical AI slop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still, listeners shouldn\u2019t encounter AI music organically on Deezer because the site won\u2019t include AI-flagged tracks in suggestions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-541851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}