Deezer lets listeners hide AI-generated music from search

Deezer is adding a switch that lets listeners hide fully AI-generated music from search results.¹ It is due worldwide before the end of 2026, and you can turn it off again at any time.¹

The figures are Deezer's own. Between January 2025 and August 2026 the service detected more than 42 million AI-generated recordings and removed them from algorithmic and editorial recommendations.¹ Nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated recordings arrive every day. On peak days that is more than half of everything delivered.¹ Their share of streams is only 1 to 3 per cent. According to Deezer, up to 85 per cent of those streams in 2025 were fraudulent.¹

What this means in practice: when Deezer detects manipulated streams, they are excluded from royalty payments.¹ By keeping AI recordings out of recommendations, Deezer aims to stop them diluting the royalty pool everyone else is paid from in any significant way.¹ The new switch applies to search results. Music where AI contributes just a few elements is treated differently.¹ The announcement does not say how many people in Switzerland use Deezer.