Deezer introduced a free online tool on Thursday that scans playlists from 20 streaming platforms — including Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music — to identify AI-generated tracks. The move positions the French streaming service as the music industry’s most aggressive opponent of synthetic music, a stance it hopes will differentiate it from larger rivals.
The AI music detector supports 27 languages and allows users to import their playlists from any supported platform. After scanning, the tool flags tracks it identifies as AI-generated and offers the option to share the results. Deezer said it does not store users’ playlist data after the scan completes.
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Why Deezer is taking action
Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier said in a statement that no other major streaming company has followed Deezer’s lead on AI detection. “By detecting and tagging AI-generated music over the past year and a half, Deezer has been at the front of transparency in music streaming. No other company has followed our lead yet, so we decided to make it possible for everyone to check if their playlists include synthetic music, no matter which streaming platform they use,” Lanternier said.
The company revealed that 44% of all new music uploaded to Deezer is AI-generated. The platform receives roughly 75,000 AI-generated tracks daily — more than two million per month. Despite the volume, listening rates for synthetic music remain low at 1-3% of total streams. Deezer flagged approximately 85% of those streams as fraudulent and demonetized them.
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While Apple Music and Spotify have adopted a tagging approach — labeling AI-generated content rather than removing it — Deezer actively removes AI tracks from its recommendation algorithms and excludes them from editorial playlists. The company recently began offering its detection technology to rival platforms as a licensing option.
How the tool works
To use the detector, users visit Deezer’s AI music detector website, select their streaming service, and grant Deezer read access to their playlists. The scan runs on Deezer’s servers and returns a report listing any flagged tracks. The tool is compatible with 20 platforms, including SoundCloud, Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music.
Deezer said it is considering next steps such as updating supplier policies or removing AI-generated content entirely, following the lead of Bandcamp, which banned AI music earlier this year.
The launch comes amid growing concerns across the music industry about how AI companies use copyrighted material to train their models and how synthetic music could enable streaming fraud. Deezer’s detection tool is one of the first publicly available cross-platform solutions to address both issues.
