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HN recommends it in threads on AI music flooding streaming platforms, for its practical detection ideas such as compression artifacts.
Musician Benn Jordan uses AI to detect AI-generated music and digs into music industry data, including streaming payouts and sample library copyright problems. He covers ways to tell whether a track is human-made.
“has a great video about using AI to detect AI music. It's worth a watch.” (HN, 2025)
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Musicians who are being threatened by AI impersonating them, flooding the market with music like theirs, and otherwise actually harmed by this would disagree with you. Benn Jordan speaks at length about it in this video: [this video]
Benn Jordan discusses harm to musicians from AI impersonation and flooding.
Not sure what algorithm Deezer is using, but Benn Jordan is a fairly tech savvy musician who talks about ways to id AI generated music by looking for compression artifacts used by the training data. [this video]
Describes spotting AI music via compression artifacts from training data.
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