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Deezer Plans an Opt-In Filter for Fully AI-Generated Music
Deezer says a new toggle for excluding fully AI-generated music from search results will be available worldwide before the end of 2026. The planned setting will let listeners choose whether to hide tracks, albums and related artists identif
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“We’ve seen a clear user demand for the ability to filter out AI-generated music, and we are now giving everyone the option to remove this content completely from their streaming experience on Deezer, and focus only on human creators and creations, if they wish.”
Alexis Lanternier, CEO of Deezer
Deezer announced the new control on October 13, 2026. The optional switch is due to arrive worldwide before the end of the year, letting listeners hide music identified as fully AI-generated from search results.
A search filter, not a platform-wide ban
With the setting active, Deezer says AI-generated tracks, albums and the artists associated with them will no longer appear in search results. Users can turn the switch off whenever they want to find that music again. The company has not announced a launch day or said whether the feature will have additional controls.
The change extends a system Deezer already applies to recommendations. The company says tracks it identifies as fully AI-generated are excluded from algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists. The new switch adds user control over search, rather than removing those tracks from the service altogether.
Deezer reports 42 million tracks removed from recommendations
Deezer says its detection tool identified and excluded more than 42 million AI-generated tracks from algorithmic and editorial recommendations between January 2025 and August 2026. It also says it has tagged more than 14 million albums since it began labeling AI-generated music in June 2025.
The company says it now receives nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks a day, a figure that can exceed half of all daily deliveries on peak days. Those uploads have not translated into a comparable share of listening: Deezer says fully AI-generated music accounts for between 1% and 3% of streams on its service.
Deezer also says that, in 2025, as many as 85% of streams on fully AI-generated tracks were fraudulent. The company says it removes streams it detects as manipulated from royalty calculations.
The toggle targets fully synthetic tracks
The announced filter is for music Deezer identifies as fully generated by AI, not every recording that uses AI tools. The company says tracks with limited AI-assisted elements in a broader human creative process are treated differently. That boundary matters: a listener choosing the filter will not necessarily be excluding every song that involved AI somewhere in its production.
Deezer describes its detection system as proprietary and patent-pending. It says the tool can identify music made with systems including Suno, Udio and Riffusion, and that it can extend detection to other tools when relevant examples are available. The announcement also says the company is developing a more general system that can identify generated content without a tool-specific training dataset.
A survey points to demand for a choice
Deezer cites a November 2025 survey conducted with Ipsos across eight countries. Of 9,000 adults surveyed, 6,791 were music-streaming users; 45% of that group said they would like the option to filter out music generated entirely by AI. The survey also found that 97% of participants failed to distinguish two AI-generated tracks from one human-made track in a listening test.
The poll supplies a rationale for an optional control, not evidence that most listeners want AI-generated music removed by default. Deezer’s planned feature leaves that choice to individual users. Its practical reach will depend on what the detection system classifies as fully synthetic—and, for the new toggle, whether those tracks surface in search results.