US EditionMusic streaming service Deezer adds AI song tags in fight against fraud
- In 2024, a man was apprehended for illegally obtaining $12 million from streaming platforms by artificially boosting play counts of AI-created songs across multiple services.
- This fraud emerged amid a sharp increase in AI-generated music uploads, with Deezer reporting that 18% of daily uploads are fully AI-created and up to 70% of AI streams are fake.
- Deezer now labels AI-generated tracks and excludes them from editorial playlists and royalty payments to combat widespread streaming manipulation by bots.
- Thibault Roucou, Deezer's director of royalties, emphasized that as long as financial gains are possible through fake streaming, there will be ongoing attempts to exploit the system.
- These actions imply the music industry must adopt transparent AI labeling and detection technologies to protect artists' rights and combat evolving streaming fraud.
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For the first time, a streaming platform reports the songs generated by artificial intelligence. Deezer apposes a mention on the albums concerned. ...
The platform has put in place an initiative to warn users when music has been made entirely from artificial intelligence.
The French streaming platform has developed a detection tool to identify titles produced without human intervention. One more step towards transparency as these content flows in tens of thousands every day.
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Music streaming service Deezer adds AI song tags in fight against fraud
Music streaming service Deezer said Friday that it will start flagging albums with AI-generated songs, part of its fight against streaming fraudsters.
A Deezer report reveals that online fraudsters are abusing computer-generated music to collect royalties. The fake listening is done by bots, and Deezer is countering them with tools to remove songs from generated playlists.
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