AI was detected in almost 40 per cent of music released worldwide last month, according to a new study.
As Mixmag reports, the findings were published by the online music marketplace SubmitHub. The platform’s AI detector analysed more than a million releases from July, and discovered that 23.
2 per cent were fully generated by artificial intelligence.
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It also found that 15. 3 per cent featured signs of AI-generated audio that had been “modified or processed” by humans. This means that 38. 5 per cent of all music released last month was made with the involvement of AI to some degree.
SubmitHub, which lets users submit music to playlists and blogs, launched its AI detection tool, SH Labs, earlier this summer. The function aims to highlight a “growing disclosure problem” with artificial intelligence in music.
Jason Grishkoff, SubmitHub founder, explained: “I think the path forward for AI music is disclosure. People should be able to decide for themselves whether they want to engage with AI-generated music.
The AI detection tool is also being used by the likes of Bandcamp and Traxsource, as well as GEMA. The latter is a performance rights organisation that won a landmark court case against AI music generator platform Suno last month.
Bandcamp banned all AI-created music at the start of this year, saying: “We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI-generated.” Beatport followed suit just last week, promising “greater transparency” for listeners while “protecting human creativity”.
Earlier in the summer, TIDAL shared a new policy to crack down on AI-created music. The online service confirmed that it would not be paying royalties to any material made entirely by artificial intelligence.
Spotify, meanwhile, is introducing a new labelling system so that users can quickly identify artists and content created by the rising tech. Elsewhere, Deezer has revealed that AI-generated music now surpasses 50 per cent of daily uploads on the platform.
Apple Music had earlier unveiled plans to let users know if they were listening to music that had been made using AI.
Last year, SoundCloud updated its AI policy in response to backlash. The service had faced criticism over appearing to permit content uploaded to the streamer to be used to train AI.
In February, Google gave its virtual assistant Gemini the ability to create AI-generated music.
A study in 2025 found that 97 per cent of people “can’t tell the difference” between real and AI music. The previous year, another study warned that people working in music were likely to lose a quarter of their income to AI over the next four years.
In other news, Boy George has hit out at Bandcamp for removing his pro-Israel song ‘We Will Dance Again’, which was made using AI. Bandcamp told NME that the track was “removed based on violation of our Acceptable Use & Moderation Policy, which in specific regard to this case, prohibits music and audio that is wholly or in substantial part created, composed, or generated by artificial intelligence”.
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