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Deezer says AI song uploads have nearly overtaken human music

TechnologyApril 20, 2026
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Deezer says AI song uploads have nearly overtaken human music
Deezer says it receives nearly 75,000 AI-generated song submissions to its music streaming platform each day, accounting for about 44 percent of all daily uploads, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. D
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Deezer says it receives nearly 75,000 AI-generated song submissions to its music streaming platform each day, accounting for about 44 percent of all daily uploads, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Despite the increase in "fraudulent" uploads, Deezer says the consumption of AI songs makes up around 1 to 3 percent of total streams, as the platform continues to remove AI-generated music from its recommendation algorithm.

Deezer positions the tool as setting an "industry standard," adding that the platform is currently the "only" music streaming service tagging AI-generated tracks. The service also demonetizes AI-generated songs and has stopp …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Source: The Verge

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