10,000 AI tracks uploaded daily to Deezer, platform reveals, as it files two patents for new AI detection tool

France-headquartered music streaming service Deezer has launched a new AI detection tool – after filing two patent applications for the technology in December.

On Friday (January 24), the company revealed that its new tech has already discovered that roughly 10,000 ‘fully AI-generated tracks’ are being uploaded to its platform every day.

That amounts to about 10% of the daily content delivered to Deezer.

Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier also said on Friday the company plans to “exclude” fully AI-generated tracks “from algorithmic and editorial recommendation.”

“Generative AI has the potential to positively impact music creation and consumption, but its use must be guided by responsibility and care in order to safeguard the rights and revenues of artists and songwriters,” Lanternier said.

The company says it set out last year to develop an AI detection tool that “surpass[ed] the ability of available tools.”

“Tools that are on the market today can be highly effective as long as they are trained on data sets from a specific generative AI model, but the detection rate drastically decreases as soon as the tool is subjected to a new model or new data,” explained Aurelien Herault, Chief Innovation Officer at Deezer

“We have addressed this challenge and created a tool that is significantly more robust and applicable to multiple models.”

Deezer’s new tool, for which the company filed two patents in December, “can detect artificially created music from a number of generative models such as Suno and Udio, with the possibility to add on detection capabilities for practically any other similar tool as long as there’s access to relevant data examples.”

Suno and Udio are among the most popular generative music AI tools on the market today.

The companies were sued last year by labels owned by the three music majors, alleging that the AI companies trained their models on copyrighted music without authorization.

Last week, Suno was also sued by German collection society and licensing body GEMA.

Source – Music Business Worldwide