All the latest in AI ‘music’ – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2026-04-20T17:56:26+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/903196 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Emma Roth <![CDATA[Deezer says AI song uploads have nearly overtaken human music]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=915027 2026-04-20T13:56:26-04:00 2026-04-20T13:56:26-04:00 Image showing a cartoony robot head with music notes inside a speech bubble near it.

Deezer says it receives nearly 75,000 AI-generated song submissions to its music streaming platform each day, accounting for about 44 percent of all daily uploads, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Despite the increase in "fraudulent" uploads, Deezer says the consumption of AI songs makes up around 1 to 3 percent of total streams, as the platform continues to remove AI-generated music from its recommendation algorithm.

Deezer positions the tool as setting an "industry standard," adding that the platform is currently the "only" music streaming service tagging AI-generated tracks. The service also demonetizes AI-generated songs and has stopp …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Suno is a music copyright nightmare]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=906896 2026-04-05T12:17:17-04:00 2026-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 Suno logo on a glitchy backgrounds.

AI music platform Suno's policy is that it does not permit the use of copyrighted material. You can upload your own tracks to remix or set your original lyrics to AI-generated music. But, it's supposed to recognize and stop you from using other people's songs and lyrics. Now, no system is perfect, but it turns out that Suno's copyright filters are incredibly easy to fool.

With minimal effort and some free software, Suno will spit out AI-generated imitations of popular songs like Beyoncé's "Freedom," Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," and Aqua's "Barbie Girl" that are alarmingly close to the original. Most people will likely be able to tell the dif …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[A folk musician became a target for AI fakes and a copyright troll]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=907111 2026-04-04T13:57:12-04:00 2026-04-04T13:52:10-04:00 Musician Murphy Campbell in a black and white photo that appears to be taken on an old-school large format film camera.
Murphy Campbell is at the center of a brewing storm around AI and a broken copyright system. | Image: Murphy Campbell

In January, folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered several songs on her Spotify profile that did not belong there. They were songs that she had recorded, but she'd never uploaded them to Spotify, and something was off about the vocals.

She quickly surmised that someone had pulled performances of the songs she posted to YouTube, created AI covers, and uploaded them to streaming platforms under her name. I ran one of the songs, "Four Marys", through two different AI detectors, and it seemed to support her suspicions with both saying it was probably AI-generated.

Campbell was shocked, "I was kind of under the impression that we had a little b …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Suno leans into customization with v5.5]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=903056 2026-03-28T14:34:26-04:00 2026-03-28T14:33:10-04:00 Suno V5.5 logo in big bold font, daring you to talk smack.
Slop yourself. | Image: Suno

Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more natural vocals, v5.5 is about giving users more control. It includes three new features: Voices, My Taste, and Custom Models.

In the release notes, Suno says that Voices is its most requested feature. It lets users train the vocal model on their own voice. They can upload clean accapellas, finished tracks with backing music, or just sing directly into the mic on their phone or laptop. The cleaner and higher quality the recording, the less data is required. And to prevent someone fro …

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]]> Jess Weatherbed <![CDATA[Apple Music adds optional labels for AI songs and visuals]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=889836 2026-03-05T09:00:00-05:00 2026-03-05T09:00:00-05:00 Apple Music logo, on red and white background
No AI usage will be assumed on works that providers haven't voluntarily tagged. | Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge

Apple is asking artists and record labels on its music streaming platform to voluntarily label songs that were made using AI. The new "Transparency Tags" metadata system for Apple Music was announced in a newsletter to industry partners yesterday, according to Music Business Worldwide, and covers four categories, including track, composition, artwork, and music videos.

The track tag should be applied when "a material portion of a sound recording" has been generated by AI tools, while the composition tag covers other AI-generated compositional elements, such as song lyrics. The artwork tag applies to static or moving graphics, but only at th …

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]]> Emma Roth <![CDATA[This Chainsmokers-approved AI music producer is joining Google]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=883307 2026-02-25T12:10:23-05:00 2026-02-24T09:00:00-05:00 Keyboard with a robotic arm playing it

ProducerAI, an AI-powered music-making platform, is joining Google. As part of the deal, Google will fold ProducerAI under the Labs umbrella and power the tool with a preview version of its new Lyria 3 music-making AI model.

ProducerAI is a music-making platform that allows users to work with an AI agent to generate sounds, workshop lyrics, remix songs, and even create new instruments based on a prompt. The platform launched in July 2025 as a successor to the AI music-making tool Riffusion, and initially used the startup's own AI model to help you generate songs and tweak existing ones. Seth Forsgren, the cofounder and CEO of ProducerAI, te …

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]]> Jess Weatherbed <![CDATA[Google’s AI music maker is coming to the Gemini app]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=880584 2026-02-18T09:08:44-05:00 2026-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 A screenshot of the Gemini app’s new AI music maker.
Let Gemini be your, uh, Bard? | Image: Google

Google has given Gemini the ability to spit out AI-generated music, courtesy of DeepMind's latest audio model. Beta access to Lyria 3 is rolling out in the Gemini app, enabling users to generate 30-second tracks based on text, images, and videos, without having to leave the chatbot window.

The new music-making tool is available globally starting today in English, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese, with plans to expand in the future. Access is limited to Gemini app users who are 18 years or older.

Lyria 3's text-to-music capabilities allow Gemini app users to make songs by describing specific genres, moods, or …

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]]> Emma Roth <![CDATA[Deezer opens its AI music detection tool to other platforms]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=870186 2026-01-29T11:08:31-05:00 2026-01-29T11:07:53-05:00

The music streaming service Deezer is giving other companies access to its AI song-detecting tool. The tool, which identifies, tags, and excludes AI-generated music from algorithmic recommendations, is now available for businesses to purchase and use, according to an announcement on Wednesday.

Deezer launched its AI music detection tool last year as part of efforts to "prevent fraudulent actors from stealing royalties from real artists through mass produced AI-generated music." The company says it has used the tool to identify and tag more than 13.4 million AI songs in 2025, even as the flood of AI-generated tracks continues to grow. Deezer …

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]]> Jess Weatherbed <![CDATA[ElevenLabs made an AI album to plug its music generator]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=864843 2026-01-21T10:44:08-05:00 2026-01-21T12:00:00-05:00
The images in the background serve as covers for each song on The Eleven Album. | Image: ElevenLabs / The Verge

ElevenLabs has released an album of AI-generated songs in its latest attempt to separate itself from the ethical concerns surrounding AI music. The Eleven Album aims to showcase "how artists can use AI to expand their creative range while maintaining full authorship and commercial rights," according to ElevenLabs.

ElevenLabs is using the album to market its Eleven Music generator and Iconic Voices Marketplace platforms it launched last year, both of which are cleared for commercial use. ElevenLabs says that every artist on the project "produced a fully original track that blends their signature sound with the capabilities of Eleven Music," …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=861794 2026-01-14T10:52:20-05:00 2026-01-14T10:52:20-05:00

Bandcamp has built its entire brand around serving artists. And, with the artist furor over AI growing every day, it's no surprise that the company has decided to take a stand against it. In a Reddit post, Bandcamp announced that AI-generated content would not be permitted on the platform and would be subject to removal.

The guidelines leave little room for interpretation. In the post, the company says that "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp." It also prohibits using AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles, similar to a rule implemented by Spotify in September. The sup …

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