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Using AI To Detect AI Music (and other music industry data-porn)

Using AI To Detect AI Music (and other music industry data-porn)

Benn Jordan
1 HN recommenders · discussed 2025–2026
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About this video

Musician Benn Jordan uses AI to detect AI-generated music and digs into music industry data, including streaming payouts and sample library copyright problems. He covers ways to tell whether a track is human-made.

Why it appears in the archive

HN recommends it in threads on AI music flooding streaming platforms, for its practical detection ideas such as compression artifacts.

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From the Hacker News discussion

vunderba · 2025-01 · rec

Ben Jordan (from the band The Flashbulb) has a great video about using AI to detect AI music. It's worth a watch. [VIDEO]

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belthesar · 2026-01 · reference

Musicians who are being threatened by AI impersonating them, flooding the market with music like theirs, and otherwise actually harmed by this would disagree with you. Benn Jordan speaks at length about it in this video: [VIDEO]

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milesvp · 2026-04 · reference

Not sure what algorithm Deezer is using, but Benn Jordan is a fairly tech savvy musician who talks about ways to id AI generated music by looking for compression artifacts used by the training data. [VIDEO]

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