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What does Deezer do about AI-generated music (detect, tag, exclude, demonetise, remove), what can an uploader declare, and where do Deezer's own pages contradict each other?

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Across five Deezer press releases (2025-06-20, 2026-01-29, 2026-04-20, 2026-07-21, 2026-10-13), Deezer describes platform-side detection of fully AI-generated tracks (its own patent-pending tool, claimed to detect output of named generators), a listener-visible tag on albums that contain such tracks, automatic exclusion from algorithmic and editorial recommendations, demonetising of streams judged fraudulent, no longer storing hi-res versions (April 2026), a July 2026 takedown rule for fraud-linked tracks and tracks unstreamed for six months, and an announced listener toggle "before the end of 2026". No uploader-side AI disclosure field is described in these pages. All figures are Deezer's own. The July 2026 release dates the first tagging to June 2026 in one place and June 2025 in another, and keeps a notes-to-editors paragraph calling removal or demonetising "potential future actions" in the same release that announces takedowns.

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      "url": "https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/01/ai-generated-music-deezer-selling-detection-tool/",
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      "url": "https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/04/ai-generated-tracks-represent-44-of-new-uploaded-music/",
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      "url": "https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/07/ai-music-exceeds-50-percent-daily-uploads-deezer/",
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      "url": "https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/10/deezer-ai-music-toggle/",
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      "url": "https://support.cdbaby.com/hc/en-us/articles/23638450756237-Understanding-Production-Sounds",
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Across five Deezer press releases (2025-06-20, 2026-01-29, 2026-04-20, 2026-07-21, 2026-10-13), Deezer describes platform-side detection of fully AI-generated tracks (its own patent-pending tool, claimed to detect output of named generators), a listener-visible tag on albums that contain such tracks, automatic exclusion from algorithmic and editorial recommendations, demonetising of streams judged fraudulent, no longer storing hi-res versions (April 2026), a July 2026 takedown rule for fraud-linked tracks and tracks unstreamed for six months, and an announced listener toggle "before the end of 2026". No uploader-side AI disclosure field is described in these pages. All figures are Deezer's own. The July 2026 release dates the first tagging to June 2026 in one place and June 2025 in another, and keeps a notes-to-editors paragraph calling removal or demonetising "potential future actions" in the same release that announces takedowns. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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