Source: The Verge
Summary
Deezer launched a tool that scans playlists from various music streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple Music, to identify songs created with artificial intelligence (AI). The company said the tool is designed to help users discover authentic music and support human artists. According to Deezer, the scanner uses machine learning algorithms to detect AI-generated tracks.
Our Reading
The announcement sounds ambitious.
Deezer’s AI music scanner claims to detect machine-made tracks on playlists from Spotify, Apple Music, and other platforms. Because, apparently, we need help telling human-made music from AI-generated tunes. The tool uses machine learning to identify AI music, which is just a fancy way of saying it uses one AI to detect another. The real question is: how many users will actually care about the difference? Deezer’s scanner is just another example of a solution looking for a problem to solve.
Author: Evan Null
