Deezer just released a free web tool that scans playlists from 20 rival streaming platforms for AI-generated music.
The French streaming company's detector works with Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, YouTube Music, and 17 others. Users connect their account, grant temporary access, and the tool flags tracks it suspects are synthetically generated. CEO Alexis Lanternier framed the move as an industry-wide intervention: no competing platform, he said, has built anything comparable. Deezer's own migration data backs that framing: nearly half of users arriving from other services bring AI-generated tracks already embedded in their playlists.
That figure reframes how widespread the unlabeled AI music problem actually is. The incumbent disclosure model, asking artists and labels to voluntarily tag AI-assisted work, has produced predictably thin coverage. Apple Music has a labeling program, but participation is optional, which means the tracks listeners most want flagged are the ones least likely to carry a label.
Deezer is clearly playing a competitive angle, positioning itself as the transparency-first platform while rivals sit on the sidelines. That framing is self-serving. The half-of-migrators figure, though, is a real data point, and no one else in the industry has published anything like it.