The music streaming service Deezer reports that about 10,000 tracks that are entirely generated by AI are uploaded to its platform every single day.
They got this number via deploying an AI detection tool designed to identify such tracks, with an eventual view to tagging them on its platform and excluding them from recommendations.
That’s fairly astonishing in itself perhaps, but it seems that it only represents 10% of all uploads, so presumably they get roughly 100k new tracks per day (!).
Artists are of course not super happy about the rise of wholly AI generated music, not least because the generative AI systems tend to have been trained on their work without their permission and without any compensation coming their way.
Recently over 1000 artists collaborated to release a “silent album”, no music featured, in protest to proposed changes to the UK copyright laws that would make the default situation to be that AI companies are free to ingest and use their work unless a specific opt-out was in place.
You can check out the background noise of wherever each track was recorded, as well as the track names, in various places including Spotify.