Streaming service Deezer launches AI music detector – and finds huge number of songs already
Streaming service Deezer launches AI music detector – and finds huge number of songs already
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At least 10 per cent of songs have been fully generated by artificial intelligence, company finds. Huge numbers of tracks are already being generated by artificial intelligence, according to streaming service Deezer. The French company built a new system that allows it to automatically identify tracks that have been created with generative AI tools. It found that around 10,000 AI tracks are being delivered each day, or around 10 per cent of the music being uploaded – and it may even be higher.
The company said that the popularity of generative models such as Suno and Udio have made it easier to automatically create songs, with a view to generating revenue by getting people to stream them. That has likely led the number of such tracks to rapidly increase.
Deezer’s system is able to spot artificially generated music from those services, and has the option to add more if there are enough data examples available. It is also working on systems that are able to spot AI music more generally. And it hopes to be able to better spot deepfaked voices, to identify songs that are posing as being by other artists.
“We set out to create the best AI detection tool on the market, and we have made incredible progress in just one year,” said Aurelien Herault, chief innovation officer at Deezer, in a statement. “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. We have addressed this challenge and created a tool that is significantly more robust and applicable to multiple models.”.