Deezer Battles Synthetic Flood: 44% of Daily Uploads Are AI-Generated
2 hours ago•TechCrunch via AI
Deezer is sounding the alarm on a content deluge, revealing that a staggering 44% of tracks uploaded to its platform every single day are now AI-generated. This massive influx of machine-crafted audio highlights a rapidly shifting landscape for music creation, flooding the service with synthetic content at an unprecedented rate.
Despite the upload volume, listener interest remains negligible. AI music constitutes only 1-3% of total streams, a figure further diminished by rampant fraud. Deezer reports that 85% of these artificial plays are detected as bot activity