Deezer reports a sharp increase in AI-created music uploads, now constituting nearly half of all daily new tracks, prompting calls for clearer disclosure and artist protection amid a surge in synthetic content.

Deezer says artificial intelligence now accounts for 44% of all new tracks uploaded to its platform each day, underlining how quickly machine-made music is spreading through streaming services. The French company said it receives close to 75,000 AI-generated songs daily, or more than 2 million a month, even though these tracks still make up only a small share of listening overall.

According to Deezer, AI-made music represents around 1% to 3% of total streams, but roughly 85% of those plays are detected as fraudulent and are not monetised. The company said it uses detection tools to identify synthetic uploads, remove them from algorithmic recommendations and exclude them from editorial playlists, while also stripping away high-resolution storage for such files.

The figures mark a sharp rise in just a few months. Deezer said it was seeing about 60,000 AI tracks a day in January, up from 50,000 in November and 30,000 in September. When its detection system launched in early 2025, the platform was handling only about 10,000 a day, suggesting a steep acceleration in the flood of generated content.

Deezer has also moved to label AI-generated music at platform level, saying in June 2025 that it had become the first streaming service to do so. By the end of 2025, it said it had tagged more than 13.4 million tracks. The company has argued that clearer disclosure is needed to protect artists and help listeners understand what they are hearing, especially as a survey it commissioned found most respondents could not tell human and AI tracks apart. That concern has grown after a computer-generated song recently topped iTunes charts in several countries, including the US and the UK.

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