Qobuz, a French music streaming service, has introduced a new feature in its app to label tracks and albums that are identified as being generated by artificial intelligence (AI). This move is part of the platform’s ongoing efforts to increase transparency around AI-generated content. In addition to adding these labels, Qobuz has released data showing the extent of AI-generated music on its platform and the impact of related fraud. The company is finalizing its "transparency charter on AI," a set of guidelines it first outlined in February 2024. Under this charter, Qobuz has committed to three main principles: maintaining a fully human-curated editorial selection, excluding AI-generated content from its recommendation algorithms, and implementing a system to identify artificial content. According to the platform, 60% of plays on AI-generated tracks that have been flagged as fraudulent are no longer counted toward royalty payments for rights holders. When a track or album is identified as AI-generated, users are notified directly in the app, on the specific title’s page, to ensure they are aware of the content they are listening to. Georges Fornay, Qobuz’s deputy general director, emphasized that the platform prioritizes a music discovery process driven by human curators rather than automated systems. Editorial teams are responsible for creating all selections and playlists, which helps limit the exposure of AI-generated content to its subscribers. Qobuz argues that simply detecting AI-generated music is not enough—users need to be informed about what they are listening to. As a result, more than a third of AI-identified albums with no recorded plays—approximately 4 million—have been removed from the platform’s internal search engine. AI-generated content accounts for just 0.38% of total plays on Qobuz, a figure the company attributes to its human editorial selection process rather than algorithm-driven recommendations. This percentage is significantly lower than that of other platforms. For example, Deezer, another music streaming service, receives up to 75,000 AI-generated tracks each day, which constitutes 44% of the new titles sent to the platform. If fraud is confirmed, Qobuz removes the streams from royalty calculations and deletes the associated titles from its catalog. Founded in 2007, Qobuz offers over 100 million titles in high-resolution audio formats and focuses on providing access to all music genres, including content from independent labels.