Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated
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When more than 90,000 AI tracks a day make up over half of uploads, the bottleneck shifts from creation to curation and rights management. Labels, platforms, and tools that can algorithmically filter, attribute, and monetize this flood will control the new music discovery surface.
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