Photo Credit: Ircam Amplify CEO Nathalie Birocheau
Ircam Amplify has launched a software solution designed to empower record labels, publishers, rights holders, and management organizations to identify AI-generated tracks.
We know there’s plenty of AI-generated content out there, though it’s not always easy to identify. Now, Ircam Amplify, a provider of technology solutions to analyze, process, and edit audio, has announced the launch of its AI-Generated Detector tool to enable record labels and publishers, as well as rights holders and distributors, to accurately identify AI-generated music.
The timing for the launch couldn’t be more apt, as hundreds of thousands of new music files created by AI tools are uploaded daily to music streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. According to Ircam, in 2023 alone, an estimated 170 million tracks were created using AI, posing a risk to human creativity, infringing copyright, and diluting compensation for creators.
The AI-Generated Detector features an AI-tagging system that allows stakeholders to easily identify artificially generated music files in a completely automated manner. The technology can screen up to 5,000 tracks in less than a minute, with an impressive accuracy rate of 98.5% in identification.
“Generative AI is reshaping the creative landscape, especially in the music sector, where everyone can create music using AI tools. This is, quite rightfully, a concern for all those who are involved in the creation, distribution, and revenue-sharing of music,” says Nathalie Birocheau, CEO of Ircam Amplify.
“Our AI-Generated Detector is a game changer,” she continues. “It will provide transparency where there was opacity. It will give a strategic advantage to the users of the detector and help them make informed decisions about music content. This is a much needed development for the market and we are thrilled to be at the forefront of this new technological development.”
“Leveraging our Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and audio AI expertise, we trained a dedicated algorithm through a deep neural network on both humanly created and publicly available AI-generated music datasets,” adds Romain Simiand, Chief Product Officer at Ircam Amplify. “The detection training proved so specific to each model that we were able to state which one has been used to generate the tracks.”
The new launch follows the successful launch last year of Ircam Amplify’s flagship product, Stereo to Spatial, which offers a seamless and affordable “spatialization” process for record labels and digital distributors.
The AI-Generated Detector will be available to demo during the Music Biz Conference, held in Nashville from May 13-16. This will be the first opportunity for delegates to see the product in action.
