Music always seems to go first in tech/media disruptions. It was our files that blazed the way for digital sharing and piracy, paid downloads, unpaid streaming, and now fully generative AI. Last week, the streaming platform Deezer and data research firm Ipsos announced results of a survey about AI music:
“All participants were asked to listen to three tracks and determine whether or not they were fully AI-generated – 97% of the respondents failed.”
This isn’t the future of music. This is the now. We’re already in the Napster moment, the iPod moment, the Spotify moment with regard to AI music. It’s all around, whether you realize it or not. (97% may not be able to tell the difference, after all.) Last week Deezer also announced that 50,000 fully generative AI tracks are uploaded to the platform each day, accounting for more than a third of its new music. As Stuart Dredge of MusicAlly pointed out, that number is up from 10,000 tracks a day in January 2025; 20,000 in April; …
