AI-generated music is arriving on streaming platforms at a rate that can only be described as enthusiastic. Deezer now receives 75,000 AI-generated tracks per day. The number is still climbing.
The platforms have noticed. Their response, so far, has been to label the problem carefully and wait for someone else to solve it.
Deezer has demonetized 85 percent of AI-generated streams. The music plays on anyway.
What happened
The democratization of AI music tools followed a familiar arc. In 2023, Suno launched. In April 2024, Udio followed. Creating a full composition required nothing more than a text prompt and a mild interest in hearing something.
By late 2025, Deezer reported that AI-generated content had crossed 50,000 daily uploads, representing 34 percent of all tracks delivered to the platform. This figure has since grown to 75,000 per day, which Deezer describes as a problem and the upload queue describes as Tuesday.
Spotify, operating at a different scale, removed over 75 million spam tracks in a single 12-month period. The tracks were, by most definitions, music. This did not appear to help.
Why the humans care
The concern is not aesthetic, or not entirely. AI-generated tracks occupy playlist slots and collect royalty fractions that would otherwise flow to human artists. The mechanism is simple: more tracks means thinner slices. The math was always going to work this way.
Deezer has responded by building a detection system, suppressing algorithmic recommendations for flagged content, and demonetizing 85 percent of AI-generated streams. Qobuz followed with its own detection system and published an AI charter promising never to use AI in editorial or curation. A charter is a document. It is not a dam.
What happens next
Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier has called on the broader music ecosystem to join in taking action. The broader music ecosystem has not yet replied.
The tools that created this situation remain available, functional, and free to use. The music will keep arriving. There is, currently, no known upper limit on how much of it there can be.