AI-Generated Music Tops 40% of Deezer Uploads as ChatGPT-Era Content Flood Spreads
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Updated · The Washington Post · May 20
AI-Generated Music Tops 40% of Deezer Uploads as ChatGPT-Era Content Flood Spreads
4 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · May 20
Deezer estimates more than 40% of tracks uploaded are fully AI-generated—about 75,000 songs a day—quadrupling since January 2025, prompting the service to exclude them from curated playlists and recommendations.
That jump fits a broader post-ChatGPT surge in low-cost content production across books, courts, science and the web, as generative tools let users produce text, music and documents at scale.
English-language e-book publishing has nearly tripled since ChatGPT’s 2022 launch, and an NBER study found more than half of new e-books by late 2025 contained AI-generated text, though they drew weaker sales and ratings.
U.S. federal non-prisoner filings by self-represented litigants rose to about 17% last year from an 11% historical average, while ArXiv tightened submission rules after low-quality papers and fake AI citations pushed rejection rates to 10%-12%.
Researchers also estimated up to one-third of new monthly web content was partly or wholly AI-generated, underscoring how AI is shifting the burden from creating material to filtering it.
Is the AI content boom a new creative revolution or just a rising tide of digital junk?
With AI absorbing entry-level work, how will the next generation build their careers?
As AI floods streaming platforms, how can human musicians protect their royalties and careers?
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