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There's folks that spam music streaming services with thousands of AI-generated songs in hopes of making a few bucks.
So, you don't actually need it to be hugely popular for it to hurt artists...
Do they get any listens, tho ? Generating thousands of songs is not quick or cheap, and then if you have to pay for listens i don't see how that can be profitable. How many of those songs even make the monetization cutoff ?
It's kind of tinfoil hat but i've always suspected this kind of story was covert marketing from Suno themselves. I'm sure they would love to actually make a dent in the music world like that and it would make their investors look real smart. But maybe the real story is that they've raised 700 millions and they barely exist in their own industry.
That being said, I hope they get fucked in court again.
I don't know, if they get many listens, but 1½ weeks ago, this article made the rounds from Deezer, saying that they do get a ton of AI-generated uploads: https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/07/ai-music-exceeds-50-percent-daily-uploads-deezer/
Granted, this is definitely also a marketing piece for Deezer to talk about how great their AI detection is, but I also don't think they would claim there to be more AI-generated songs than there really are, as they don't gain much from lying here.
At this point, other streaming services are also actively trying to curb back AI-generated songs, since they mostly just take up extra storage space. We've had such a massive abundance of songs before already, that you really just needed good curation, not more of them.
In that sense, I do assume that the AI-generated music is not seeing as many listens as the uploaders may have hoped for. And maybe that also means that they do not hurt artists quite as much in the end.
I imagine, these uploaders just hope for one song to do well, to not be detected as AI-generated etc., and for that song to pay for dozens more generated songs.