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Deezer is making its AI-detection tool commercially available after confirming it has led to the demonetization of up to 85% of AI music streams due to fraud.
A year after the launch of Deezer’s AI-music detection tool, the company is now making it commercially available, encouraging industry-wide transparency. Up to 85% of all streams on AI-generated music have been detected as fraudulent, the company says, and are demonetized and removed from the royalty pool in continued efforts to support fair payments for artists and songwriters.
According to Deezer, daily deliveries of AI-generated music averaged around 60,000 tracks in January alone, equalling roughly 39% of all music delivered to the platform nearly every day.
Generating fake streams continues to be the main purpose for uploading AI-generated music. While only a small share of the total streams on Deezer (up to 3%) come from AI-generated tracks, up to 85% of those in 2025 were found to be fraudulent. By comparison, streaming fraud across the entire catalog accounted for only 8% of all streams in 2025.
“Music generated entirely by AI has become nearly indistinguishable from human creation, and with a continuous flood of uploads to streaming platforms, our approach remains crystal clear: transparency for fans and protecting the rights of artists and songwriters,” says Alexis Lanternier, CEO of Deezer.
“We know that the majority of AI music is uploaded to Deezer with the purpose of committing fraud, and we continue to take action. We detect and tag AI-generated music and remove it from algorithmic recommendations, so that our users have a clear choice regarding what to listen to, while making it harder for fraudsters to game the system. And of course, every fraudulent stream that we detect is demonetized so that the royalties of human artists, songwriters, and other rights owners are not affected.”
While Bandcamp recently came out against allowing AI-generated music on its platform, Deezer has remained the only music streaming platform to clearly tag and exclude AI-generated music from recommendations. Now with a proven product, Deezer is moving to sell its AI-detection tech, offering the wider music industry an option to support transparency in music streaming and reduce the incentive for AI-music fraud.
“We’ve seen a great interest in both our approach and our tool, and we have already performed successful tests with industry leaders, including SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers of Music). From now on, we are licensing the tech to make it widely available,” said Lanternier. “Deezer continues to lead the way in promoting a transparent experience for artists and fans, with a commitment to fight AI music fraud across our industry.”
