Using AI To Detect AI Music (and other music industry data-porn)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it in threads on AI music flooding streaming platforms, for its practical detection ideas such as compression artifacts.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2025 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends vunderba · 2025-01 · on “Goodbye, Slopify”
Ben Jordan (from the band The Flashbulb) has a great video about using AI to detect AI music. It's worth a watch. [this video]
Cites belthesar · 2026-01 · on “AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp”
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: [this video]
Cites milesvp · 2026-04 · on “Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated”
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. [this video]