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Key facts
- There was a sense of experimentalism to 2018’s the reporter AM AI by Taryn Southern and 2019’s Proto by Holly Herndon, albums that were created with significant assistance from AI
- In September of 2025, Deezer said that 28 percent of music uploaded was fully AI-generated
- By the end of the year, that had grown to over 50,000 tracks per day, accounting for 34 percent of uploads
- Things have only gotten worse at Deezer, where daily uploads of AI-generated content have grown to 75,000, and are threatening to overtake actual human-made music
Summary
The use of generative AI in pop music started almost as a gimmick. Suno and Udio allow users to quickly create entire compositions with a simple text prompt. In September of 2025, Deezer said that 28 percent of music uploaded was fully AI-generated. Things have only gotten worse at Deezer, where daily uploads of AI-generated content have grown to 75,000, and are threatening to overtake actual human-made music. Meta’s historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million.