Qobuz labels AI-generated music in its app

Qobuz has introduced a label in its application to notify users about music determined to be generated by artificial intelligence. This label marks releases containing AI-generated material at the album level. The platform designed and developed its detection mechanism in-house to identify this content. In addition to this system, Qobuz is integrating a DDEX field for the automatic identification of AI-generated music. Qobuz acknowledged that its detection system is not a reliable solution capable of definitively identifying all content.

The company reported that tracks identified as AI-generated account for 0.38 percent of all streams on the platform. Qobuz also stated that 60 percent of the streams for tracks identified as AI-generated are considered fraudulent. Music identified as AI-generated is kept out of Qobuz's algorithmic recommendations. Furthermore, content identified as AI-generated is not promoted within the areas of the service that rely on human editorial selection.

Qobuz has removed more than one-third of the albums identified as AI-generated with no streaming activity from its search engine. The albums taken out of the search engine encompass four million tracks. For creators affected by the new tagging system, Qobuz stated that artists who believe their music was mistakenly given an AI label can contact their distributors.