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French music platform Deezer has Provide a free online tool It scans your music playlists across different streaming services and tells you how much of that music is generated by artificial intelligence.
The company says its detection tool uses the same technology it has relied on internally to identify and label hundreds of thousands of AI-generated music tracks. The tool works on playlists from about 20 music services, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, SoundCloud, and Pandora. You can also point the tool to a specific uploaded file or URL. It can scan up to 100 playlists at a time.
Music service Deezer has rolled out its in-house AI-powered music discovery tool with a free service that scans music playlists across 20 services.
Artificial intelligence music is controversial. While it seems inevitable that more and more artists will be using this technology, many listeners have an idea Negative reaction To the idea of music that was not created by humans. Meanwhile, the music Companies like UMG They are trying to protect their artists from AI fakery while also hedging their bets with deals that allow AI remixes of their catalogs on platforms like TikTok.
Elsewhere in the music industry, the The Grammy Awards decided (At least for now) only human artists will be eligible for the coveted award after an artist using artificial intelligence, Ghostwriter, asked to be considered for the award in 2023. AI-generated music on its chartsBut music seller Bandcamp He is not allowed to serve her.
Deezer’s AI detection tool could give music fans a way to see if AI-generated music has surpassed the tracks in their libraries. It works whether you have an existing Deezer account or not. And because nothing is truly free, the tool integrates your playlists into Deezer and offers to merge them into a new account of yours if you don’t already have one.
How well Deezer performed in our (very limited) testing.
In my limited testing of the tool, a scan of my Spotify playlists found 0% AI content. This number was incorrect, as I added several albums from the AI songwriter and comedian Nick Harrison, known as “The Professor”.
A Deezer representative suggested that some artists who are not already subscribed to Deezer may not be discovered.
“Through our policy and approach to AI music (detection, labeling and exclusion from recommendations), we saw that some AI music was not uploading to Deezer,” the representative said in an email.
But Harrison’s albums are on the platform, as the actor later confirmed. It’s possible that because Harrison’s music is in my library as albums, and not as individual tracks in my playlists, his AI music hasn’t been discovered.
As a next step to ensure the tool works, I added some of Harrison’s songs to my existing playlists. The actor also suggested adding a few well-known AI artists to the playlists, e.g Velvet Sundown. Doing so seems to have worked; My AI detection score went from zero to a staggering 1%.
My take: Unless your playlists rely heavily on new music identified by recommendation algorithms rather than your own curation, you probably won’t see many tracks flagged as AI-generated with Deezer. However, as AI-generated music continues to grow and labeling becomes more difficult to keep up with, this may still be a useful tool to bookmark when you’re unsure whether what you’re hearing on a streaming service is real or AI-generated.
At least not yet.
