AI generating one in ten songs on music streaming site ‘Deezer’

Deezer says it aims to better pay genuine musicians by weeding out fake songs that are then streamed by fraudulent accounts created in order to remunerate the “artists”.

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

Deezer is now focussing 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.