"Streaming service Deezer ran an experiment recently, with the help of research firm Ipsos. The finding - that 97 percent of people can't tell the difference between fully AI-generated and human-made music - was alarming. But it's also not the whole story. In the survey, 9,000 participants listened to three tracks and were asked to guess which, if any, were completely AI-generated."
"If the participant failed to guess all three correctly, they were put in the fail pile. That means if you got two of three correct, Deezer and Ipsos still said you couldn't tell the difference between fully AI-generated music and the real deal. Deezer sent me the three tracks it used in the study, and so I decided to run my own (less scientific) experiment. I had 10 people listen to the same tracks and gave them the same prompt."
Deezer and Ipsos presented 9,000 participants with three tracks and asked them to identify which, if any, were fully AI-generated. The analysis deemed participants successful only if they correctly identified all three tracks, yielding a 97 percent failure rate to distinguish AI from human-made music. A separate informal test with ten listeners used the same tracks and prompt; only one listener identified all three correctly, but individual-track identification rose to 43 percent when responses were not bundled. Several listeners labeled one track as obviously AI because it sounded notably poor.
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