Deezer opens its AI music detection tool to rival streaming services

Deezer is tackling AI music with its proprietary detection tool.

Deezer is a leading proponent for tackling AI-generated music. Now, the company has decided to share its proprietary AI music detection tool. Once reserved solely for its platform, Deezer has licensed the tool to French royalty agency Sacem. This marks one of the most significant commercial achievements for combating music fraud in recent years. For example, it could prevent bad actors from siphoning royalties away from human artists.

News of Deezer’s latest deal comes months after the company discovered that over 30% of new music submitted to its platform is AI-made. This is up from 10% last January and represents approximately 60,000 fully AI-created tracks every day. For its part, Deezer successfully identified and removed up to 85% of fraudulent AI-generated music streams from its royalty pool in 2025. This equated to over 13.4 million AI tracks. Deezer’s CEO, Alexis Lanternier, claims that the company’s royalty pool comprises 70% of subscriber revenue.

Spotify owns a much larger share of the music streaming market than Deezer.

Deezer claims that its detection tool “has an accuracy of 99.8%” and can detect fully AI-generated music created using sophisticated software, such as Suno and Udio. This is achieved by analyzing and identifying subtle anomalies in audio signals that are inaudible to human ears. Impressively, the program is trained on 94 million songs.

However, other companies, such as Bandcamp, are cracking down on AI content entirely. For example, Bandcamp recently banned all AI-generated music on its platform. Even Spotify has measures to prevent generative AI music from flooding its ecosystem. However, many listeners remain unhappy, as it does not label AI-generated music. This is presumably because some musicians will actively use AI as an artistic choice. The Swedish royalty society Stim recently told Reuters that detection tools alone cannot resolve musical composition and copyright issues. Instead, Stim believes mandatory licensing and full transparency for training data would prevent fraud at its source.

Regardless, Deezer is forging ahead by pitching its AI detection tool to other European collective societies. It also plans to engage with organizations in Los Angeles during Grammy Week. This could make it easier for other music streaming services, such as Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music, to identify and remove AI music in the future.