{"id":193680,"date":"2025-06-18T06:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193680\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T06:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:19:08","slug":"up-to-70-of-streams-of-ai-generated-music-on-deezer-are-fraudulent-says-report-artificial-intelligence-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193680\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 70% of streams of AI-generated music on Deezer are fraudulent, says report | Artificial intelligence (AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up to seven out of 10 streams of artificial intelligence-generated music<\/a> on the Deezer platform are fraudulent, according to the French streaming platform.<\/p>\n

The company said AI-made music accounts for just 0.5% of streams on the music streaming platform but its analysis shows that fraudsters are behind up to 70% of those streams.<\/p>\n

AI-generated music is a growing problem on streaming platforms<\/a>. Fraudsters typically generate revenue on platforms such as Deezer by using bots to \u201clisten\u201d to AI-generated songs \u2013 and take the subsequent royalty payments, which become sizeable once spread across multiple tracks.<\/p>\n

The tactic aims to evade detection measures triggered by vast listening numbers for a small amount of bogus tracks.<\/p>\n

Thibault Roucou, the director of royalties and reporting at the Paris-based platform, said the manipulation of AI-generated music was an bid to \u201cget some money from royalties\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as there is money [in fraudulent streaming] there will be efforts, unfortunately, to try to get a profit from it,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re investing in fighting it, because we know it\u2019s not going away and we need to be one step ahead every time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deezer deploys a tool it says can detect 100% AI-made content from the most prolific AI music models such as Suno and Udio.<\/p>\n

Deezer said the AI-generated music streamed by fraudsters ranged from fake pop and rap music to artificial mood tracks. The platform blocks royalty payments for streams it has identified as fraudulent.<\/p>\n

Deezer revealed in April that AI-generated music now represents 18% of all uploads to its platform, or 20,000 tracks per day. The company said it was removing all fully AI-generated content from its algorithmic recommendations. Deezer has more than 10 million subscribers worldwide, while market leader Spotify<\/a> has 268 million.<\/p>\n

Roucou said he did not know who was behind the fraudulent streams but the perpetrators appeared to be \u201corganised\u201d. The global streaming market was worth $20.4bn last year, according to trade body the IFPI, representing a sizeable target for fraudsters.<\/p>\n

In its latest global music report<\/a>, the IFPI said fraudulent streaming steals money that \u201cshould be going to legitimate artists\u201d. It said generative AI had \u201csignificantly exacerbated\u201d the problem.<\/p>\n

Last year, a musician in the US, Michael Smith, was charged in connection with a scheme to create hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs and stream them billions of times, obtaining $10m in royalty payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up to seven out of 10 streams of artificial intelligence-generated music on the Deezer platform are fraudulent, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-193680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114702920128592226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}