- Deezer says the number of AI-generated songs on its site continues to grow
- Now, 44% of all downloads have been detected as AI-generated.
- As part of its anti-AI plan, Deezer will store high-resolution versions of AI songs for longer
There’s one key feature that sets Deezer apart from many other top music streaming services, and that’s its transparency on AI-generated music.
The number of AI downloads is only increasing, the French platform claims, from just over 30% of all downloads in December 2025 to 44% today – and the company wants giants such as Spotify to join in and do something about it.
Deezer is stepping up its efforts to combat AI filth and will no longer stock high-resolution versions of these tracks. In a statement, CEO Alexis Lanternier said: “Through our technology and the proactive measures we put in place over a year ago, we have shown that it is possible to minimize AI-related fraud and payment dilution in streaming.”
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Lanternier then urged competing platforms to take similar steps, adding: “Since January, we have been making our detection technology available for licensing, and we look forward to seeing industry peers of all kinds join us in the fight for fairness in the AI era.”
Deezer rolled out its own AI detection tool in January 2025, aiming to flag music generated entirely by AI and increase trust and transparency with subscribers. It even went the distance and made its flagship technology available to its competitors earlier this year.
Stop the slope (I can’t stop the slope)
To dig a little deeper into the numbers, late last year, Deezer said that up to 34% of new music downloads were entirely AI-generated, or more than 13.4 million songs in 2025. Today, that number has jumped to a frightening 44%, which equates to about 75,000 per day, or more than 2 million AI-generated downloads every month.
While this is a rather alarming statistic in its own right, what’s arguably more worrying is that a large majority of users said they couldn’t tell AI-generated music from human-created music, a testament to how quickly these technologies are evolving.
One of the driving factors behind the rise of AI-generated uploads is that it is an easy way to imitate other artists and generate profits through fraudulent streams. With the growing number of AI songs on Deezer, the streaming service has also cracked down on demonetization, saying up to 85% of streams were detected as fraudulent when it made its AI detection tools public. We contacted Deezer who claims that this percentage is still the same today.
Deezer’s AI tagging system is just the start of a broader fight against the scourge of AI. While Spotify hasn’t vocally cracked down on AI detection like Deezer or, say, Bandcamp (which led to a growing migration from the big green streaming machine to its high-res rival Qobuz late last year), Spotify recently rolled out a new system that allows artists to review and approve music that appears on their profile.
Apple Music is another rival that could join the battle against AI-generated music; the company should roll out transparency tags to help identify AI-generated and AI-assisted music – but again, the onus is on labels and distributors to indicate the use of AI in what you hear.
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