A simple toggle will remove AI-generated tracks, albums and artists from search results and recommendations, whilst more than half of the daily uploads to the platform are now synthetic.
Deezer will offer a setting before the end of 2026 to exclude AI-generated music from its listening experience. Once activated, it will remove the songs, albums and artists concerned from search results and recommendations.
A tidal wave of synthetic titles
The French platform justifies this function by the scale of the phenomenon: in July 2026, more than half of the titles deposited each day were generated by AI, i.e. about 90,000 per day, compared to barely 10% at the beginning of 2025. A Deezer-Ipsos study conducted in 2025 already indicated that nearly 45% of its subscribers wanted to be able to discard this content. Its CEO, Alexis Lanternier, cites this explosion as one of the triggers of the project.
Streaming services are moving forward in scattered order: Bandcamp has banned AI songs, Tidal has stopped paying for them, Spotify is betting on visible labeling and Apple Music is preparing similar signage. On the same day, YouTube Music also announced new labels for songs created or modified by AI.
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