YouTube just started labelling AI music. Have you been misled?
Source: The Star
Published on: 2026-11-01 04:03
Two streaming services spent last week trying to figure out whether their listeners should be told that music was machine-made. Deezer said it will soon let listeners filter entirely AI-generated tracks out of search. Last Wednesday, YouTube Music started putting AI labels on songs. The timing isn't hard to explain. Deezer says it now receives nearly 90,000 entirely AI-generated tracks a day, more than half of everything delivered to it on peak days. YouTube says its listeners "have told us they want transparency when they're hearing an AI-generated track." If you ship anything made with AI, you face the same decision, and it's a product decision as much as an ethical one. In experiments with piano music and paintings, telling people a machine made the work changed how they judged it, even when the audio or the image was the same. There's an important element of human psychology that'...
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