A year after the launch of Deezer’s AI-music detection tool, the company is now making it commercially available, encouraging industry-wide transparency. Up to 85% of all streams on AI-generated music have been detected as fraudulent, the company says, and are demonetized and removed from the royalty pool in continued efforts to support fair payments for artists and songwriters.
Source: Deezer Offers Its AI-Detection Tool for Sale to Other Platforms
The real question “is not what machines can or will be able to do, but what we can and will be able to achieve by growing in humanity and knowledge through the wise use of the powerful tools at our service,” Pope Leo XIV said in a new message. He warned against letting tech override human creativity, imagination and intellect.”
Source: Let communication be conducted by real human beings, not AI, pope says
A.G. Sulzberger argues journalism can survive AI—if facts can still be owned. At Stanford, the NYT publisher made the case against Silicon Valley. His message was direct. The New York Times sees itself as infrastructure. Its reporting underwrites trust across politics, markets, and public life. That work costs money, produces intellectual property, and deserves protection.
Source: NY Times Publisher: AI Is Using Our Reporting Without Paying For It
As studios and agencies begin quietly modeling what AI means for long-term franchises and aging stars, Pitt represents a category that executives increasingly focus on: globally recognizable talent whose commercial value extends beyond peak physical performance. In other words, stars whose brand will outlive their on-screen output.
Source: Brad Pitt and the Economics of the Digital Double — AI In Hollywood
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said reducing “AI slop” and detecting deepfakes are priorities for the Google-owned video site in 2026. “It’s becoming harder to detect what’s real and what’s AI-generated,” Mohan wrote in his annual letter published Wednesday. “This is particularly critical when it comes to deepfakes.” Mohan said the world is at an “inflection point,” where “the lines between creativity and technology are blurring.”
Source: YouTube chief says ‘managing AI slop’ is a priority for 2026
Meta’s enormous bet on virtual reality ended last week, with the company reportedly laying off roughly 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division — about 10% of the unit’s staff — and shutting down several VR game studios, according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s a huge reversal for a company that, just four years ago, staked its entire identity on the concept. Few are going to miss it.
Billed as setting “a new global standard for how artificial intelligence and music creators coexist”, the deal will see the Lemonaide team fully join BeatStars as they strive to build “the world’s first ethical, creator-owned AI music ecosystem”. The firms previously struck a strategic alliance in 2023 as they sought “to establish a precedent for ethical AI business models in the music industry”.
Source: BeatStars acquires ‘ethical’ generative music startup Lemonaide AI
Deezer, the France-based music streaming service which developed tools last year to tackle AI-generated music, said in a statement to the BBC that “many of her albums and songs on the platform are detected and flagged” as being computer-generated. Moreover, as the BBC points out, Rose “has no social media presence, has never played a gig, has no videos, and has released an improbable number of songs in a short space of time.” All are signs that indicate that the artist isn’t real.
Source: The Plot Thickens on Suspected AI Singer Sienna Rose
A song that topped Spotify‘s Swedish charts has been banned from the country’s official rankings after an investigation revealed that it was created using artificial intelligence by a Danish music publisher. Jag vet, du är inte min by an artist called Jacub reached No. 1 on Spotify‘s Swedish Top 50 before music industry body IFPI blocked it from Sverigetopplistan. It also landed at No. 14 on Spotify’s Top 50 chart in Norway.
The national executive director and chief negotiator of the actors union SAG-AFTRA enumerated on his dollars-and-cents approach to what the labor group calls “synthetic performers” in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show on Thursday. His remarks previewed the tack that the union may take when its negotiations with studios and streamers begin on Feb. 9, where AI is again expected to be a top issue.
Source: SAG-AFTRA’s Likely Strategy: Make AI Performers as Expensive as Humans