Apple Music: "Transparency Tags" identify AI songs
The Apple music streaming service wants to become more transparent regarding AI-generated music. Spotify has similar plans, Deezer uses detectors.
Apple Music on Mac: Users should know when music comes from AI models.
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Apple has announced to its music industry suppliers that it intends to implement labeling for AI-generated songs in Apple Music in the future. So-called transparency tags are intended to help users of the music streaming service recognize that a track or an entire album was not made by humans, or only partially. Four elements can be “flagged”: the composition, the title itself, any accompanying music video, or the artwork, i.e., the cover or the cover animation increasingly used in Apple Music. Tracks should also be labeled if a song was partially created with AI; in terms of composition, this refers not only to the song itself but also to the lyrics. Music videos will also be labeled if they are delivered to the service without an album or track.
Labels are responsible for declaration
According to Music Business Worldwide, which has a corresponding letter to distributors and labels dated Wednesday morning (US time), Apple is now accepting the data. In the future, they will be enforced. Apple writes that this is a first step towards greater transparency in the industry. The declaration is entirely the responsibility of the labels and/or their distributors.
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Other providers, such as Deezer, are trying to detect AI at the platform level – with corresponding detection algorithms. However, Deezer does not require declaration by labels. Both models have advantages and disadvantages: While Apple relies on self-declarations, AI songs can be misdeclared (both false positives and false negatives) with detectors at the platform level.
Deezer reports major problems
Deezer announced in January that the platform receives up to 60,000 AI tracks per day (!). That's almost 40 percent of all submitted tracks. Streaming of AI music is also often fraudulent – according to Deezer, up to 85 percent of all listens to AI music are fake. The creators want to profit from this, and the streaming service hopes to prevent this with its detection.
Apple itself has not yet provided any information on how much Apple Music is affected by the problem. The letter to the music industry did not specify what happens if the labeling is incorrect. Technical details can be found here. Spotify also wants to help users recognize AI music with a label. Instead of its system, the Swedish-American streaming market leader will use the industry standard DDEX.
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