Deezer plans an off switch for fully AI-generated music in search
A reversible toggle will hide fully AI-generated tracks, albums and associated artists from search results, with a global rollout planned before the end of 2026.
Listener choice moves into search
Deezer plans to give listeners an on/off switch for fully AI-generated music in search results. Announced on October 13 and explained by its English Community team on October 14, the setting is scheduled to roll out globally before the end of 2026.
With the filter enabled, fully AI-generated tracks, albums and artists associated with that content will be excluded from search results, the company says. Turning it off will restore access to those results. This is an optional discovery control, rather than an announcement that Deezer is deleting all AI music from its catalog.
The distinction matters for people who want human-made music without manually inspecting every search result. Deezer’s Community explanation expressly says the filter targets fully AI-generated music, not music created by humans using some AI tools. It also specifies that the new control applies to search results only.
A planned filter, alongside existing detection
Deezer says it already excludes detected AI-generated tracks from algorithmic and editorial recommendations. The upcoming toggle adds a user-controlled search layer to that existing approach. Its Community team says requests on its forum and Reddit helped motivate the feature; that is the company’s account of demand, not a measurement of opinion across all listeners.
The newsroom says its detection system has excluded more than 42 million AI-generated tracks from recommendations between January 2025 and August 2026. That historical company figure is not a count of songs removed by the forthcoming toggle, and it does not establish perfect detection accuracy.
TechCrunch’s October 14 report also describes the feature as forthcoming. The reviewed announcements do not give a specific launch day, and AITrending has not tested the setting or audited the detector. The concrete change is the promised ability to choose whether fully synthetic music appears while searching, with a reversible switch and a stated rollout window.