Deezer to let listeners block fully AI-generated music from search
A toggle due before year-end extends the streaming service’s labelling and recommendation restrictions
Deezer will introduce an on-off control before the end of 2026 allowing listeners to remove fully AI-generated tracks, albums and related artists from its search results. Turning the setting off will restore those results, giving users a choice that goes beyond the company’s existing labelling and recommendation policies.
The company said the change responds to demand for greater control over synthetic music. A November 2025 Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 people in eight countries found that 45% of music-streaming users wanted to filter out music made entirely by AI, while 80% said it should be clearly labelled. In a blind test, 97% of respondents could not distinguish fully AI-generated songs from human-made music.
The filter applies to music created entirely with generative AI, rather than tracks using limited AI-assisted elements within a wider human creative process. Deezer says its detector identifies audio-signal artifacts from models including Suno, Udio and Rifussion, and has advertised 99.8% accuracy, with fewer than one false positive for every 10,000 authentic songs.
The new search control extends a system in place since January 2025 that automatically removes detected fully AI-generated songs from algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists. Deezer says it became the first streaming platform to explicitly label such music in June 2025. As covered in September, the detection technology was recognised with Billboard France’s Innovation Award.
Between January 2025 and August 2026, Deezer detected and excluded more than 42 million AI-generated tracks from recommendations, and tagged more than 14 million albums containing AI music. In April, Deezer said it received nearly 75,000 AI-generated tracks a day, or 44% of daily uploads. It says it receives nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks per day, representing more than half of daily delivery on peak days.
Despite that volume, fully AI-generated music accounts for only 1% to 3% of streams on Deezer. The company found that up to 85% of streams from such tracks were fraudulent in 2025, and says detected stream-manipulation activity is excluded from royalty payments. Deezer is also licensing its detection technology to the wider music industry, after filing two related patent applications in December 2024 that were published by EU and US patent offices in June.
The development places Deezer among services tightening controls on synthetic releases. Qobuz has also labelled AI-generated music and removed inactive AI albums from search, while reporting that 60% of streams on identified AI tracks were fraudulent. Deezer’s new setting, however, is intended to let listeners decide whether fully AI-generated music appears in search at all.