Are you listening to bots? Survey shows AI music is virtually undetectable

A staggering 97% of listeners cannot separate betwixt artificial intelligence-generated and human-composed songs, a Deezer–Ipsos survey showed connected Wednesday, underscoring increasing concerns that AI could upend however euphony is created, consumed and monetised.

The findings of the survey, for which Ipsos polled 9,000 participants crossed 8 countries, including the U.S., Britain and France, item rising ethical concerns successful the euphony manufacture arsenic AI tools susceptible of generating songs rise copyright concerns and endanger the livelihoods of artists.

It besides showed that astir listeners privation wide labelling connected AI-generated music, euphony streaming level Deezer said.

The survey recovered that 73% of respondents supported disclosure erstwhile AI-generated tracks are recommended, 45% sought filtering options, and 40% said they would skip AI-generated songs entirely. Around 71% expressed astonishment astatine their inability to separate betwixt human-made and synthetic tracks.

Deezer, which has 9.7 cardinal subscribers, has seen regular AI euphony submissions emergence to much than 50,000 — astir a 3rd of full uploads, up sharply from 18% successful April. It has introduced tagging and excluded AI-produced tracks from editorial playlists and algorithmic recommendations to beforehand transparency.

“We judge powerfully that creativity is generated by quality beings, and they should beryllium protected,” Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier told Reuters, urging transparency.

Lanternier noted the complexity of implementing differential payout structures for AI music, stating a “massive change” successful remuneration policies remains challenging. Deezer has besides started excluding fake streams from royalty payments.

The contented gained attraction earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile AI set “The Velvet Sundown” attracted 1 cardinal Spotify listeners monthly earlier its synthetic origins were exposed. Universal Music Group precocious settled a copyright lawsuit with AI euphony institution Udio. While fiscal presumption were undisclosed, the parties program to motorboat an AI-powered euphony instauration level successful 2026, utilizing licensed euphony to bid the tool.

On Tuesday, a Munich tribunal ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by reproducing opus lyrics, a determination the institution said it mightiness appeal.

Consumer attitudes toward AI successful media stay mixed. A May survey by Luminate recovered the bulk of U.S. audiences were indifferent oregon accepting of AI usage successful cinema tasks similar ocular effects, but sceptical of AI-written scripts oregon synthetic actors.