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AI-generated songs have been flooding music streaming platforms in recent years, and apparently, it’s pretty difficult for people to tell the difference between music made by humans and tracks made by AI.

Now, Deezer is offering a way to check.

The French streaming platform announced Thursday that it is making its AI music detection tool available for free to users of 20 major streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music. The tool lets users scan their playlists to see which tracks may have been generated by AI.

“A vast majority of people want to know if AI music is being recommended to them and our data show that nearly half of the users joining Deezer from another platform have AI tracks in their playlists. We’re expecting our AI music detector to be an eye-opening experience for listeners around the world,” said Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier in a press release.

To use Deezer’s tool, users can go to this link, choose their streaming service, connect their account, and agree to let Deezer scan their playlists.

The news comes as AI-generated content, including videos and songs, has taken over the internet. Deezer says it receives nearly 75,000 AI-generated tracks every day, making up more than 44% of the music uploaded daily to its platform.

Some AI-generated songs have even broken through on the charts. Last November, the AI-generated song “Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust made headlines after topping Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart. More recently, in April, “Celebrate Me” by the AI persona IngaRose reached the number one spot on the U.S. iTunes chart.

Deezer first started using its detection tool on its own platform at the beginning of 2025 to label AI-generated tracks. The company has also made the detection tool available commercially to other music companies.

The streamer says more than 13 million AI-generated tracks were detected and tagged on the platform in 2025. Additionally, the company says that 43% of people joining Deezer from other streaming platforms already had AI music in their playlists.

To understand people’s attitudes toward AI music, the company also commissioned a survey last year with Ipsos across eight countries and 9,000 respondents. The survey found that 97% of respondents couldn’t tell the difference between fully AI-generated music and human-made music in a blind test. It also found that 80% agreed that fully AI-generated music should be clearly labeled for listeners.

As AI music becomes more common online, not every streaming platform is handling the issue the same way.

Spotify, for example, announced in April that it would start adding “Verified by Spotify” badges to artist profiles that meet the platform’s criteria for authenticity and trust.

The move appears aimed at helping listeners avoid fake artist profiles, including AI-generated music meant to be streamed artificially by bots.

According to Deezer, AI-generated music accounts for only between 1% and 3% of streams on its platform. But the company says up to 85% of streams from fully AI-generated tracks in 2025 were fraudulent.

Still, Spotify appears to be embracing AI in other ways. Just last month, the company announced a deal with Universal Music Group that will let Premium users create AI-generated covers and remixes of songs from participating artists.