Deezer launches free detector to spot AI-generated music in playlists

Is there AI in your playlist? Now it only takes a few clicks to find out. The French platform Deezer announced to AFP that it had launched a free online detector on Thursday June 11. It allows you to scan playlists from different streaming services to reveal the proportion of titles entirely generated by artificial intelligence.

The detection tool is accessible to users of Deezer but also of Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal or Qobuz. In practice, the user connects to his audio platform account from the detection site, then the scanner sifts through the lists he has created. The detector then reveals the percentage of AI in the total number of songs, without specifying the titles concerned.

“The majority of people want to know if AI-generated music is recommended for them“, assures Alexis Lanternier, the boss of Deezer, estimating that this detector will be “a revelation for listeners around the world“. In January 2025, 10,000 tracks of this type were delivered every day on the French platform: it now receives seven times more, or almost half of the tracks put online each day.

More and more numerous, these titles are also more and more elaborate. AI music creation generators like Suno, Udio, ElevenLabs, popular for its vocal cloning, or ProducerAI, acquired by Google, have made considerable progress. It becomes almost impossible to locate their productions by ear. And some even experience real success. In the United States, country songs by Breaking Rust or Aventhis, entities created by AI, are climbing to the top of the charts. In France, Magic by Willylancien has several million listens.

Consumption of this music remains marginal, between 1 and 3% of the total number of streams, notes Deezer, which has however chosen to report the pieces concerned and remove them from its editorial playlists. But the French platform is the first to choose to differentiate itself by committing itself in all directions against AI. Representatives of the sector especially denounce the massive looting of works to train AI models, without respect for copyright.

“Creativity is what makes us human and must be actively protected“, alerted, at the beginning of June, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, which represents five million creators. Legal actions having not seen significant progress, the music industry is instead turning to agreements with AI companies to pay artists.

The majors Universal and Warner have, for example, announced agreements with Udio. Spotify unveiled at the end of May, with Universal Music Group, the arrival of a paid feature which will allow users to create remixes and covers of songs by the label’s artists, using AI. Regulating this flow is also the responsibility of aggregators, these distributors who deliver tracks to audio platforms.

TuneCore, one of the main players in the genre, now only distributes music created via generative AI models trained on licensed data, Believe, its parent company, assured in early June. “The added value of the music industry is not producing music on an assembly line“, assures Denis Ladegaillerie, CEO and founder of this French flagship, who has also signed licensing agreements with ElevenLabs and Udio.

But regulating AI companies promises to be difficult. In the Assembly, a bill has just been rejected. She wanted to reverse the burden of proof: in the event of litigation, AI suppliers would themselves have to prove that they had not illegally used cultural content. “We are not against innovation, but we must signal the end of recess, put an end to this illegal trawling of cultural content“, insisted Senator Laure Darcos (Horizons), at the origin of the text.

The tech lobby feared a “legal insecurity” weakening French AI companies, including the flagship Mistral. Concern heard. Thursday June 11, at the end of the day, the bill, although adopted unanimously in the Senate, was blocked by hundreds of amendments to the Assembly. Its future is now very uncertain.