Deezer Licenses AI Music Detection Tool to Combat Streaming Fraud

PARIS: Music streaming platform Deezer announced Thursday it has licensed its artificial intelligence detection technology to France’s royalty agency Sacem in a landmark commercial deal, as the company pursues wider industry adoption to combat music fraud.

The agreement comes as AI-generated music uploads surge across streaming platforms, with Deezer now receiving approximately sixty-thousand fully AI-created tracks daily, representing thirty-nine percent of total uploads, up from ten percent in January last year. The company successfully identified and removed up to eighty-five percent of fraudulent AI-generated streams from its royalty pool in 2025, flagging over thirteen-point-four million AI tracks.

Deezer’s detection tool analyzes audio signals for patterns created by AI music generators such as Suno and Udio, identifying subtle anomalies inaudible to human ears. The system has been trained on ninety-four million songs and can detect AI-generated content with ninety-nine-point-eight percent accuracy, according to the company. Two patents for the technology were filed in 2024.

Once flagged, AI-generated tracks are excluded from algorithmic recommendations, demonetized, and removed from royalty pools. Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier said the company has seen great interest from industry leaders who have completed successful tests. The company is now licensing the technology broadly, positioning it as shared industry infrastructure rather than competitive advantage.

The rise of AI music tools is also pushing major tech firms to add stronger transparency controls, with Google’s Lyria 3 Pro using SynthID watermarking to label AI-generated tracks.

However, Swedish royalty society Stim cautioned that detection tools address only part of the problem, advocating for mandatory licensing mechanisms and greater transparency regarding training data. According to a study by CISAC and PMP Strategy, nearly twenty-five percent of creators’ revenues could be at risk by 2028, potentially amounting to four billion euros.