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Whether you know it or not,\u00a0you\u2019ve likely seen an AI-generated\u2026 something today, whether it\u2019s an image<\/a>, a video<\/a>, or even a person<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s also a good chance you\u2019ve listened to AI, too. <\/p>\n One in two tracks uploaded to the French streaming service Deezer in June was AI-generated, the company told Metro.<\/p>\n This amounts to some 90,000 pieces of AI music flooding the service every day, double the number in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n The reason for the influx of this phoney music is simple, Aur\u00e9lien\u00a0H\u00e9rault, chief innovation officer at Deezer, tells Metro.<\/p>\n \u2018Because it\u2019s possible to do so,\u2019 H\u00e9rault says, \u2018it\u2019s never been easier to create music, and with only a few words you can prompt a whole song.\u2019<\/p>\n Can you tell which track is AI-generated and which isn\u2019t?<\/p>\n Probably not.<\/p>\n When Deezer asked 9,000 people last year <\/a>if they could identify a track made by AI versus one made by humans, AI fooled 97% of them.<\/p>\n Can you? Here are two tracks below. One was made by machine-learning algorithms, statistical models and linguistic rules; the other by people.<\/p>\n Someday is a song made by the British-Sudanese neo-soul artist Elmiene, who is a human. While Say My Name With Respect was composed using Suno, an AI software trained using tens of millions of pop songs. <\/p>\n The artificial artist Xania Monet, crafted by the Mississippi poet Telisha Jone, signed a $3million deal with a major R&B record label <\/a>in September. <\/p>\n How about another go? Though this round includes a certain AI soul singer whose monthly listen count rivals Ariana Grande.<\/p>\n The song Heart You Help Me Find, by the dusky-voiced jazz singer Sienna Rose<\/a>, has been flagged by Deezer\u2019s systems as containing AI elements.<\/p>\n Toronto R&B creator 3ee (pronounced \u2018Bee\u2019, by the way) is the flesh-and-bones artist behind PDA.<\/p>\n Deezer suggested one more AI artist to share with Metro.<\/p>\n Its album page on Deezer has a label reading: \u2018AI-generated content. This album includes tracks detected as generated with the use of AI.\u2019<\/p>\n Which one has that label, though?<\/p>\n This one was a bit of a trick. Of course, the track which lists the artist as \u2018Beats By AI\u2019 is, in fact, a beat made by AI (and an NSFW one in that<\/a>).<\/p>\n Yet the vocals, instruments and lyrics for Dird Road I Stayed On were also produced by an algorithm.<\/p>\n The artist Breaking Rust, with some 1,800 fans, is a\u00a0music project by composer Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor.<\/p>\n One of Breaking Rust\/Taylor\u2019s tunes, Walk My Walk, was the first AI\u2011generated single to top the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart.<\/p>\n AI music once just 10% of daily Deezer uploads<\/p>\n AI tools are being used in playlisting<\/a>, demo recording and even making chart-topping music, so much so that Deezer made an AI music detector<\/a>. <\/p>\n And these slop songs are nothing new \u2013 in 2023, the song Heart on My Sleeve\u2019 went viral for its AI mimics of Drake and the Weeknd\u2019s voices.<\/p>\n The TikTok user behind the track, ghostwriter, compared their use of AI writing tools and voice clones <\/a>to just that \u2013 ghostwriting. <\/p>\n Tech enthusiasts at the time were proclaiming that AI has \u2018forever changed<\/a>\u2019 the music industry, letting anyone make music that sounds like a living, breathing Homo sapiens made it, or close enough.<\/p>\n And just like that. The music industry is forever changed.<\/p>\n I recorded a verse, and had a trained AI model of Kanye replace my vocals.<\/p>\n The results will blow your mind. Utterly incredible. pic.twitter.com\/wY1pn9RGWx<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Roberto Nickson (@rpnickson) March 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n Deezer began tracking how much music being uploaded to it was AI in January 2025,<\/a> when it was around 10,000 tracks, or 10% of daily uploads.<\/p>\n The number doubled by April that year before climbing to 30,000 in September and 50,000 in November. <\/p>\n In January 2026, some 60,000 silicon singers were belting out painful ballads, gospel music and upbeat pop (or \u2018A pop\u2019).<\/p>\n Why do people listen to AI music?<\/p>\n Many artists \u2013 of the human variety \u2013 feel these synthetic songs threaten the very existence of musicians, however.<\/p>\n These homemade tracks aren\u2019t always labelled as AI<\/a> on music platforms, allowing fictional artists to sneak into playlists and recommendations.<\/p>\n H\u00e9rault says that the amount of streams \u2013 people actually listening \u2013 of AI tunes on Deezer is between 1-3%.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tDo you listen to AI music?<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tStay up to date with the stories everybody\u2019s talking about by signing up to Metro’s News Updates newsletter.<\/p>\n \u2018Up to 85% of these streams are fraudulent, meaning people are synthetically boosting the streams to steal money from the royalty pool and legitimate artists,\u2019 she says.<\/p>\n Given that Deezer excludes AI-generated tracks from recommendations, H\u00e9rault suggests that the thousands listening to them could just be curious, or have heard them on social media. <\/p>\n \u2018We want to give our users the choice,\u2019 H\u00e9rault adds, \u2018and we\u2019ve seen that people care about knowing if they listen to AI music or not.\u2019<\/p>\n Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more stories like this, check our news page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arrow Arrow Arrow \t\t\tComments \t\t\t\tAdd as preferred source \t\t\t\tNews Updates<\/p>\n Stay on top of the headlines with daily email updates.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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