Deezer said it is now receiving 90,000 AI tracks a month, which is outpacing songs produced by human crooners like Taylor Swift and Madonna
AI has taken over the music industry, shock figures show. Streaming services are now getting more songs created by the tech sent to their platforms than real tunes.
Firm Deezer said it is now receiving 90,000 AI tracks a month, which is outpacing songs produced by human crooners like Taylor Swift and Madonna. And bosses are increasingly stepping in to axe robot tunes used for rip-off streaming fraud.
Cheeky folk are using AI to generate realistic songs in the style of popular artists to try to earn money off the back of their success.
Deezer’s CEO Alexis Lanternier said the firm has “been at the frontline of fighting fraud and reducing payment dilution related to AI music for almost two years”.
He added: “Now that half of all daily uploads are AI-generated tracks, we are taking additional steps to safeguard the rights of artists and songwriters, while maintaining focus on music that fans actually love.
“We have reached a pivotal moment, but we have the technology to keep track of the development, and an ambition to do what’s right.
“If the industry can align and come together to create shared standards, we can build a healthy and sustainable music ecosystem, where great music wins.”
Tracks detected as AI-generated reached their peak last month, accounting for more than 50% of new music uploads for the first time.
It comes after Deezer became the first streaming platform to weed out AI-generated music from its algorithms. The firm has vowed to also take down robot rhythms that haven’t been streamed for at least six months.
Meanwhile, streaming chiefs found up to 85% of streams generated by AI-generated tracks were fraudulent. It comes after Madonna, 67, savaged the role of AI in music.
The crooner, who performed at last weekend’s World Cup final, told Vogue Italia magazine last month: “That’s why in [song] Bring Your Love I say, ‘Don’t try to distract me with numbers’.
“For me it started not thinking about the charts, the streaming numbers.
“Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks and to me that is the opposite of making art.”