Deezer will add a Deezer AI music toggle, a setting that removes fully AI-generated tracks, albums and the related artists from a listener’s search results. The Paris-based streaming service announced the setting on October 13, 2026 and says it will reach users globally before the end of 2026. It has not given an exact release date.

What the setting does

The toggle is an on/off switch in the listener’s settings. With it on, music that Deezer has classed as fully AI-generated no longer appears when that person searches. Turning it off brings those results back.

The scope is narrower than “any music that used AI.” Deezer says the feature targets tracks created entirely with generative AI platforms. Music with limited AI-assisted elements inside a broader human creative process “is treated differently,” according to the company’s FAQ, which does not say exactly where that line is drawn.

The announcement describes the effect on search. It does not say whether the setting also changes other parts of the app, such as a listener’s own library or playlists shared by other users.

How Deezer finds AI tracks

The toggle builds on detection Deezer already runs. The company says its in-house tool, in place since early 2025, recognizes music from the most prolific generative models, naming Suno and Udio among them. According to Deezer:

  • More than 42 million AI-generated tracks were detected and removed from algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists between January 2025 and August 2026.
  • Since June 2025 it has labeled AI-generated music for listeners, and more than 14 million albums carry that tag.
  • It receives nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks a day, more than half of all new deliveries on peak days.
  • Two patent applications for the detection method, filed in December 2024, were published by the EU and US patent offices in June 2026.

These are Deezer’s own figures; no independent audit of the detector’s accuracy has been published with the announcement.

Why it is doing this

Deezer gives two reasons. The first is listener demand: a survey it commissioned from Ipsos in November 2025, covering 9,000 people in eight countries, found that 45% of streaming users would like to filter out fully AI-generated music, and that 97% could not tell such tracks from human-made ones in a blind test.

The second is fraud. Deezer says fully AI-generated music makes up only 1% to 3% of streams on the service, but up to 85% of those streams in 2025 were fraudulent. Streams it identifies as manipulated are excluded from royalty payments.

“We are now giving everyone the option to remove this content completely from their streaming experience,” CEO Alexis Lanternier said in the announcement.

Deezer also says it now licenses its detection technology to other music companies, and that removing or demonetizing AI tracks outright would need “careful consideration.” For more AI news, see our AI desk.