# Deezer will let you switch off AI-generated music

URL: https://ai-pulse.aglaganova.com/blog/deezer-will-let-you-switch-off-ai-generated-music
Published: 2026-10-14
Author: Roman Aglaganov, Full-stack developer
Category: Tools
Region: Europe
Tags: copyright

> More than half of the tracks uploaded to Deezer each day are now made by AI. A new toggle, due before the end of the year, hides them from your searches altogether.

![Illustration: a row of black sound-wave bars, many of them hollowed out, above a red toggle switch](https://ai-pulse.aglaganova.com/api/media/file/deezer-1.png)

The French streaming service Deezer has spent the past year counting AI-generated songs. This week it said it will let listeners make them disappear. A new setting, expected before the end of the year, will stop AI-generated tracks, albums and related artists from showing up in search results.

## Why Deezer is doing it

**The flood:** when Deezer started detecting AI music, AI tracks made up about 10% of daily uploads. By July this year they were more than 50%, around 90,000 tracks a day.

**The demand:** a survey last year found that about 45% of Deezer customers wanted a way to remove AI music from their feeds.

“We’ve seen clear user demand for the ability to filter out AI-generated music,” chief executive Alexis Lanternier said, adding that listeners can now choose to “focus only on human creators”.

## How other services compare

Streaming services are taking very different lines. Bandcamp has banned AI tracks completely, and Tidal has stopped paying people who upload them. Spotify only labels AI tracks and artists more prominently. Variety reported in August that Apple Music plans to label AI tracks by the end of the year.

## What to keep in mind

A filter is only as good as the detector behind it. Deezer’s works on fully AI-generated uploads; music made with some AI help is a much greyer area, and no detector is perfect. Still, it is the first big service to give listeners a simple off switch. If people use it, that tells the industry something labels never could: how many listeners actually care.

## Sources

- [TechCrunch: Deezer will soon let you filter out AI-generated music](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/deezer-will-soon-let-you-filter-out-ai-generated-music/)