Modulate launches AI music detection as synthetic tracks flood streaming
Voice artificial intelligence company Modulate Inc. today launched a tool that flags AI-generated music straight from the audio.
The product, an application programming interface called AI Music Detection, scores how likely a clip is to contain AI vocals or AI instrumentals and gives a verdict on the whole file. Streaming services, distributors and rights holders can use it to catch synthetic tracks flooding their catalogs.
Modulate built the model to tackle a problem the music industry has struggled to get ahead of: Generative tools can now produce convincing songs in seconds and the systems that distribute, recommend and pay out royalties on music were not designed to tell human work apart from machine output. Much of the response so far has leaned on voluntary disclosure, metadata and watermarking, all of which depend on a track being labeled correctly at the source.
“Disclosure is important, but that alone is not enough,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Mike Pappas. “If a platform only knows what uploaders choose to tell it, then it has no reliable way to manage the scale of AI-generated content entering the system.”
