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Humans Can No Longer Tell AI Music from the Real Thing, Survey Finds 

Deezer said AI-generated tracks have surged from one in 10 streamed at the beginning of the year to one in three. (AFP)
Deezer said AI-generated tracks have surged from one in 10 streamed at the beginning of the year to one in three. (AFP)
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Humans Can No Longer Tell AI Music from the Real Thing, Survey Finds 

Deezer said AI-generated tracks have surged from one in 10 streamed at the beginning of the year to one in three. (AFP)
Deezer said AI-generated tracks have surged from one in 10 streamed at the beginning of the year to one in three. (AFP)

It has become nearly impossible for people to tell the difference between music generated by artificial intelligence and that created by humans, according to a survey released Wednesday.

The polling firm Ipsos asked 9,000 people to listen to two clips of AI-generated music and one of human-made music in a survey conducted for France-based streaming platform Deezer.

"Ninety-seven percent could not distinguish between music entirely generated by AI and human-created music," said Deezer in a statement.

The survey was conducted between October 6 and 10 in eight countries: Brazil, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States.

Deezer said more than half of the respondents felt uncomfortable at not being able to tell the difference.

Pollsters also asked broader questions about the impact of AI, with 51 percent saying the technology would lead to more low-quality music on streaming platforms and almost two-thirds believing it will lead to a loss of creativity.

"The survey results clearly show that people care about music and want to know if they're listening to AI or human made tracks or not," Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier said in a statement.

Deezer said there has not only been a surge in AI-generated content being uploaded to its platform, but it is finding listeners as well.

In January, one in 10 of the tracks streamed each day were completely AI-generated. Ten months later, that percentage has climbed to over one in three, or nearly 40,000 per day.

Eighty percent of survey respondents wanted fully AI-generated music clearly labelled for listeners.

Deezer is the only major music-streaming platform that systematically labels completely AI-generated content for users.

The issue gained prominence in June when a band called The Velvet Sundown suddenly went viral on Spotify, and only confirmed the following month that it was in fact AI-generated content.

The AI group's most popular song has been streamed more than three million times.

In response, Spotify said it would encourage artists and publishers to sign up to a voluntary industry code to disclose AI use in music production.

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Google to Build AI Campus in South Korea, Presidential Office Says

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) shakes hands with Demis Hassabis (L), co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and the architect behind the AlphaGo artificial intelligence system, during their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, 27 April 2026. (EPA/Yonhap)
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) shakes hands with Demis Hassabis (L), co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and the architect behind the AlphaGo artificial intelligence system, during their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, 27 April 2026. (EPA/Yonhap)
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Google to Build AI Campus in South Korea, Presidential Office Says

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) shakes hands with Demis Hassabis (L), co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and the architect behind the AlphaGo artificial intelligence system, during their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, 27 April 2026. (EPA/Yonhap)
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) shakes hands with Demis Hassabis (L), co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and the architect behind the AlphaGo artificial intelligence system, during their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, 27 April 2026. (EPA/Yonhap)

South Korea and ‌Google have agreed to build an artificial-intelligence campus in Seoul to develop cooperation between the tech firm and local engineers and startups, Kim Yong-beom, a presidential policy adviser, said on Monday.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met with Google DeepMind Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis in Seoul on Monday, with the Science Ministry and the company signing a memorandum of understanding on the campus, Kim said.

South Korea requested Google send ‌at ⁠least 10 engineers to the ⁠AI campus from Google's headquarters in the United States and Hassabis said he would consider that, Kim said.

The Google AI campus will be the first of its kind in the world for the US company, the presidential adviser said.

President Lee ⁠and Hassabis shared their thoughts about ‌the outlook for AI and ‌its impact on people, Kim said.

Lee raised the need ‌for the introduction of a base wage ‌in case of job losses caused by AI at the meeting.

Hassabis said he hoped with this partnership "to help with training up the next generation in these amazing technologies through ‌internships at our AI hub and other training programs."

DeepMind would like to deepen ⁠partnerships with ⁠Korean companies from Samsung and SK Hynix to Hyundai's Boston Dynamics and LG and "instigate new joint projects" with them, Hassabis said.

He described South Korea as a "great industrial base" in all of the key AI areas, from chips to robotics.

The historic match between DeepMind's AlphaGo program and Go player Lee Sedol in Korea a decade ago signaled the beginning of the modern AI era and inspired many advances in AI, including its work in science like the Alphafold system for protein folding, Hassabis said.

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Stage Set for Elon Musk’s Court Battle with OpenAI

Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on November 19, 2025. (AFP)
Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on November 19, 2025. (AFP)
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Stage Set for Elon Musk’s Court Battle with OpenAI

Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on November 19, 2025. (AFP)
Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on November 19, 2025. (AFP)

Elon Musk's lawsuit accusing high-profile artificial intelligence company OpenAI of betraying its non-profit mission heads for trial on Monday with the selection of jurors.

The legal clash in a courtroom across the bay from San Francisco pits the world's richest person against a startup Musk once backed and now competes with in the booming AI sector.

OpenAI's ChatGPT is a formidable rival to the chatbot Grok, made by Musk's xAI lab.

While Musk's lawsuit is part of a feud between him and OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman, it spotlights a debate as to whether AI should ultimately serve to benefit a privileged few or society as a whole.

Court filings lay out how Altman convinced Musk to back OpenAI in 2015, acting as a co-founder for a non-profit lab whose technology "would belong to the world."

Musk pumped millions of dollars into the lab, which he subsequently left.

However, OpenAI established a commercial subsidiary as it needed hundreds of billions of dollars for data centers to power its technology.

Microsoft has poured billions of dollars into OpenAI and its CEO Satya Nadella is among those slated to testify at the trial.

Musk argues in his lawsuit that he was deceived about OpenAI's mission being altruistic.

San Francisco-based OpenAI has countered in court filings that its break-up with Musk was due to his quest for absolute control rather than its nonprofit status.

"This case has always been about Elon generating more power and more money for what he wants," OpenAI said in a recent X post. "His lawsuit remains nothing more than a harassment campaign that's driven by ego, jealousy and a desire to slow down a competitor."

The startup noted that days after Musk entered the AI race in 2023 he called for a six-month moratorium on development of advanced AI.

The judge presiding over the trial will decide by mid-May -- guided by an advisory jury's findings -- whether OpenAI broke a promise to Musk in a drive to lead in AI or just smartly rode the technology to glory.

Along with calling for OpenAI to be forced to revert to a pure nonprofit, Musk's suit urges the ouster of Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman, who is startup president.

Musk, who had sought as much as $134 billion in damages, has since renounced any personal benefit, pledging to redirect any award to the OpenAI nonprofit. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has reserved the right to determine any remedies herself, without the jury's input.

OpenAI now has a hybrid governance structure giving its nonprofit foundation control over a for-profit arm.

Musk, who gutted the trust and safety team at Twitter after buying the social media platform that he renamed X, faces the challenge of convincing a jury and a judge that the company behind ChatGPT was built on a lie.

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China's DeepSeek Slashes Prices for New AI Model

This photograph shows screens displaying the logo of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company which develops open-source large language models, in Toulouse, southwestern France on January 29, 2025. (AFP)
This photograph shows screens displaying the logo of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company which develops open-source large language models, in Toulouse, southwestern France on January 29, 2025. (AFP)
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China's DeepSeek Slashes Prices for New AI Model

This photograph shows screens displaying the logo of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company which develops open-source large language models, in Toulouse, southwestern France on January 29, 2025. (AFP)
This photograph shows screens displaying the logo of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company which develops open-source large language models, in Toulouse, southwestern France on January 29, 2025. (AFP)

China's ‌DeepSeek is offering developers a 75% discount on its newly unveiled AI model, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, until May 5.

The company is also cutting prices for input cache hits across its entire DeepSeek ‌API lineup ‌to one-tenth of ‌the original ⁠price, it said ⁠in a post on X.

On Friday, DeepSeek launched a preview of its highly anticipated V4 model, which ⁠has been adapted ‌for ‌Huawei's chip technology.

V4 comes in two ‌versions: the more ‌powerful and higher priced Pro, and the lighter, cheaper Flash variant.

The Pro version ‌outperforms other open-source models in world-knowledge benchmarks, trailing ⁠only ⁠Google's closed-source Gemini-Pro-3.1, DeepSeek said.

According to the Chinese startup, the V4 models are particularly suited to AI agent work, which can execute more complex tasks than chatbots but require greater computing power.