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#029 - Flood and filter: the AI music nobody hears | SynthAIcast
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Episode #029 - Flood and filter: the AI music nobody hears | SynthAIcast
On some days, more than half of the music arriving on a major platform was never played by a single musician.
And yet almost nobody listens to it. Both numbers are true at the same time.
In a blind test, nearly every listener gets it wrong about which track is human. So who does the sorting, and on whose behalf? And
what is all that music really for?
In New York, a man has just been sentenced for getting his artificial songs played by thousands of fake listeners. What he collected, he took from real artists.
Meanwhile, a question once reserved for experts is landing in your hands: this image, this sound, was it a machine? For text, still no.
Ninety thousand a day: a number that doesn't mean what you think it means.
And a painting the whole of Paris laughed at, back in the spring of 1863.
Three signals. One thread. One question…
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🔗 THE SOURCES, BY SIGNAL
Signal 1 - the flood and the switch
• Deezer - a switch to filter out 100% AI music, 13/10
https://tinyurl.com/2kr5zbyr
• Deezer - AI music passes half of daily uploads, 07/2026
https://tinyurl.com/26mrx7x3
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Signal 2 - songs made for counters
• US Justice Department - AI streaming fraud sentencing, 06/10
https://tinyurl.com/ckxrcpk7
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Signal 3 - the ones who ask the question
• Google - SynthID Detector opens to everyone, 07/10
https://tinyurl.com/4yjwn645
• TechCrunch - Facebook's « Your algorithm », 13/10
https://tinyurl.com/4c5rz246
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🎧 SYNTHESISED FROM…
• The Vergecast - « The $8 million AI music scam », 14/10
https://tinyurl.com/jac7apm9
• L'Actualité Musicale (French) - AI streaming fraud, 12/10
https://tinyurl.com/y8k528kt
Also cited, without a link: the Ipsos study for Deezer (November 2025), Music Business Worldwide, Wired, and for the Salon des Refusés, the Fondation Napoléon.
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