This free AI music detector will scan through your playlists for audio slop

We know that generative AI models are now smart enough to produce images, videos, text, and audio that—most of the time—can convincingly pass for something created by a human. These types of content can be produced in seconds for little or no money, which means we’re seeing them hit the internet and its various platforms en masse. While there are protections in place to stop impersonation and spam, AI-made music isn’t banned on the big audio streaming platforms.

In some cases, it’s proved as popular as music made by humans without any AI assistance. But what if you want to make sure that everything you hear is authentically human? The music streaming service Deezer has now developed a sophisticated AI song detector you can use for free, across 20 different platforms and for up to 100 playlists—you don’t even need a Deezer account to use it.

Here’s how it works, and what happened when we put it to the test on a few playlists. Introducing the Deezer AI music detector Deezer’s detector tool. David Nield Defining AI music can be tricky: Many artists use various kinds of software to enhance their music, produce synthetic sounds, and fill in some of the gaps left by human musicians.

With that in mind, the line between AI-free music and music made by machines can be a little blurry. Deezer says its detection tool is set up to spot music that’s fully AI-generated, and that it has a success rate of 99.8 percent.

In contrast, its research shows that 97 percent of its listeners can’t tell the difference between AI-made music and human-made music when given a blind test. The idea of the tool is not to ban AI music from Deezer, but to accurately label it so that listeners know what kinds of tunes they’re adding to their playlists. According to Deezer, 43 percent of people who switch to the platform from an alternative like Spotify or Tidal and bring their playlists across have some AI tracks in their library.

Understandably, Deezer doesn’t reveal exactly how it detects AI music