Deezer removes AI-generated tracks to better remunerate genuine ‘artistes’

Music streaming site Deezer, on Friday, said that it aims to better pay genuine musicians after its detection technologies weed out fake songs streamed by fraudulent accounts created to remunerate the “artistes.”

The company revealed that one in 10 tracks uploaded to the streaming service each day is either fake or merely noise created by artificial intelligence programs.

The company stated that fraud detection technologies discovered that “around 10,000 tracks completely generated by AI are uploaded to the platform every day, representing around 10 per cent of the total,” the Paris-based firm said in a statement.

The success of its technologies, which can identify AI content “without the need for extensive training on specific databases,” led it to seek two patents last month.

Many fake tracks can clone the voices of existing artists, which currently cannot be copyrighted, or imitate popular songs.

Deezer is now focusing on a system to label AI-generated content that would be excluded from its recommended listening lists.

“Artificial intelligence is continuing to disrupt the music ecosystem more and more,” Chief Executive Alexis Lanternier said in the statement.

Deezer said in January that it would tweak its remuneration model in an effort to better pay artists whose songs get fewer downloads but have a more diverse base of listeners.