Deezer will let listeners hide fully AI-generated music from search results

Deezer is giving listeners a way to keep fully AI-generated music out of their searches—not just their recommendations. Announced on October 13, the optional filter will hide synthetic tracks, albums and associated artists from search results. The company plans a worldwide rollout before the end of 2026; the feature is not available yet.

A search control, not a catalog ban

The toggle adds a listener-controlled restriction to rules Deezer already applies behind the scenes. Tracks identified as fully AI-generated are already excluded from its algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists. The new option reaches a different part of discovery: the results people see when they actively search for music.

Users will be able to switch the filter off again at any time and regain access to the affected content. That makes it a reversible preference rather than a removal of those recordings from Deezer’s catalog. The announcement describes hiding the associated artist from the relevant search results as well as the generated recordings themselves.

The boundary is how much of the music AI created. As Digital Trends explains, the filter targets fully generated music, not songs where an artist used AI for a limited part of the production. Using an AI tool alongside human creative work would not automatically put a recording in the filtered category.

Listeners want a choice they cannot reliably make by ear

CEO Alexis Lanternier tied the feature to demand from listeners who want more control over what they hear. Deezer cites a November 2025 study it commissioned from Ipsos: 45% of music-streaming users wanted the ability to filter out fully AI-generated tracks. That figure concerns streaming users, not just Deezer customers.

Ipsos surveyed 9,000 people across eight countries: the United States, Canada, Brazil, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Japan. The research separated several preferences that can otherwise get bundled together—wanting a label, wanting to know what a service recommends, and wanting the option to remove generated music from discovery.

The study also included a blind listening test with two AI-generated tracks and one human-made track. Deezer says 97% of participants could not distinguish the generated music from the human recording in that test. That result concerns this small listening exercise, rather than every kind of AI music a subscriber might encounter.

80%Want clear identification

Of respondents in the Deezer-commissioned Ipsos study, 80% thought fully AI-generated music should be clearly identified to listeners.

73%Want recommendation transparency

Among music-streaming users, 73% wanted to know whether a service was recommending fully AI-generated music.

Heavy upload volume, a small share of listening

Deezer’s announcement puts the daily arrival of fully AI-generated music at nearly 90,000 tracks. On the busiest days, the company says, those recordings exceed half of all content delivered to the service. But upload volume is not listening share: Deezer puts fully generated music at just 1% to 3% of streams.

Its detection system has operated since early 2025. Between January 2025 and August 2026, Deezer says it detected more than 42 million AI-generated tracks and excluded them from algorithmic and editorial recommendations. It also says it has identified more than 14 million albums since introducing explicit AI labeling in June 2025.

The company says its proprietary detector recognizes music made with widely used generators including Suno, Udio and Riffusion. Extending that detection to other generators can require relevant examples of their output. Deezer also says it has made progress toward a more general system that can identify generated content without a dedicated training dataset for each tool.