Using AI To Detect AI Music (and other music industry data-porn)
Benn Jordan1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2025-2026
452K views · 1 year ago · explainer · news
Musician Benn Jordan uses AI to detect AI-generated music and digs into music industry data, including streaming payouts and sample library copyright problems. He covers ways to tell whether a track is human-made.
HN recommends it in threads on AI music flooding streaming platforms, for its practical detection ideas such as compression artifacts.
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3 comments from Hacker News
Not sure what algorithm Deezer is using, but Benn Jordan is a fairly tech savvy musician who talks about ways to id AI generated music by looking for compression artifacts used by the training data. ▶ this video
Musicians who are being threatened by AI impersonating them, flooding the market with music like theirs, and otherwise actually harmed by this would disagree with you. Benn Jordan speaks at length about it in this video: ▶ this video
Ben Jordan (from the band The Flashbulb) has a great video about using AI to detect AI music. It's worth a watch. ▶ this video