A MASSIVE 97% of Listeners Fooled: Can YOU Tell If This Hit Song Is Human… or AI?

In an era where the boundaries between the synthetic and the sentient blur with alarming rapidity, a sobering revelation has emerged from the sonic realm: humanity’s capacity to discern the hand of the artist from the algorithm has all but evaporated. 

A recent survey commissioned by the French streaming platform Deezer, polling 9,000 individuals across eight nations, laid bare this disquieting truth. 

Respondents were tasked with listening to two clips of music wholly conjured by artificial intelligence and one crafted by human hands; astonishingly, 97 percent failed to differentiate between them. 

Thanks to our unique study with Ipsos we found out that 97% of the 9000 people we interviewed could not tell the difference between fully AI-generated and human-made music ? pic.twitter.com/yaSTAD3Iu6

— Deezer (@Deezer) November 12, 2025

Find out more about our study here: https://t.co/lLlRGgR9ce pic.twitter.com/Eurtd9dF3c

— Deezer (@Deezer) November 12, 2025

Deezer’s chief executive, Alexis Lanternier, observed, “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.” 

Music streaming services are being overrun with slop.

This is the % of daily uploads to Deezer that are AI-generated. Look at the growth since Jan 2025. Most are people planning to get fraudulent plays & take royalties from humans.

It will be similar on all streaming services. pic.twitter.com/vq5AxT93vw

— Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex) September 12, 2025

This confession of perceptual failure comes not in isolation but alongside a cultural milestone that that underscores the peril.

An AI-generated country anthem, “Walk My Walk” by the fabricated ensemble Breaking Rust, has ascended to the top of Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, marking the first such triumph for machine-made melody in the genre’s history.

Here it is teh whole song

The entirely AI-generated country song titled “Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust

It hit No.1 on the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart?

It was the songwriter
It's always the songwriter pic.twitter.com/82Nd3rHWpf

— Darby Bailey, Ph.D. ??? (@DrDarbyXO) November 12, 2025

The ascent of Breaking Rust—a spectral “band” materialized on Instagram in mid-October, its chiseled-jawed cowboy avatar and vignettes of rustic Americana betraying no trace of human authorship—serves as a harbinger of disruption. 

Credited to an enigmatic songwriter called Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor, the track has amassed 1.6 million official U.S. streams, propelling its pretend progenitors to No. 9 on Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart. 

Breaking Rust "Walk My Walk" is everything wrong with country music and AI in one "song." The fact that it topped the charts explains why country and pop are both garbage formats these days.

It sounds like it was written by a prompt like this: "write a country song that sounds…

— His Royal Majesty, The Alpha Cow (@Marcus_Porcius2) November 12, 2025

The text after the cut off reads…

It sounds like it was written by a prompt like this: “write a country song that sounds like a Gen Z TikTok influencer and a rapper had a baby and have it sung by feminist with a 30 year smoker’s vocal chords.” It’s terrible. If for no other reason then it’s obvious that it’s AI because there’s no space between words. Humans have to breath at least some of the time between words, people. Good Lord.

Yet, as Billboard itself noted in a prescient dispatch days earlier, “In just the past few months, at least six AI or AI-assisted artists have debuted on various Billboard rankings… That figure could be higher, as it’s become increasingly difficult to tell who or what is powered by AI—and to what extent.” 

These incursions span genres from gospel to rock, often cloaked in anonymity, their origins as opaque as the algorithms that birthed them.

UK Music CEO @Tomkiehl emphasised the importance of labelling content at the @LordsCommsCom session on AI. He used examples of AI band The Velvet Sundown & artist Emily Portman who saw a fake AI album released under her name to highlight the need for robust labelling around AI. pic.twitter.com/hqb5vy8fzR

— UK Music (@UK_Music) November 5, 2025

If we can’t tell the difference and AI keeps spreading unchecked, we risk a future where most of what we listen to isn’t made by people at all. 

Music, once a direct expression of human experience and skill built over years of practice, risks relegation to an algorithmic afterthought. 

Deezer’s data shows how fast this is happening: in January, one in ten daily streams was fully AI-generated; by October, it was one in three—about 40,000 tracks per day. 

More than half of those surveyed said they were uncomfortable not knowing what was real, while 51 percent expect more low-quality music and nearly two-thirds believe creativity will suffer.

In this future, the drive to develop real talent fades. Why spend years learning an instrument or honing song writing when a computer can produce something immediate enough to pass for the real thing?

The Velvet Sundown’s rise on Spotify—later revealed to be AI, with its top slop song streamed over three million times—shows how easily this can happen. 

AI slop songs are swamping Spotify. The Velvet Sundown attracted over 475,000 listeners on Spotify in the past month. Their song “Dust on the Wind” is a one alphabet change from the 1977 “Dust in the Wind” by the band Kansas. AI slop Wafting in the Wind.https://t.co/0TqEVD5M39 pic.twitter.com/XxOt0bRSr3

— meemingwong (@freetheatoms) July 2, 2025

The incentives that once propelled virtuosos like George Jones—whose soul-rending rendition of “He Stopped Loving Her Today” captured an ineffable human ache—dissolve into obsolescence. 

Spotify now asks creators to voluntarily disclose AI use, but only Deezer consistently labels fully AI-generated tracks—a practice supported by 80 percent of survey respondents.

This insidious creep isn’t isolated to music. If songs can pass as human, so can books, paintings, movies, and even news. Novels could be written in the style of great authors without a single human insight. 

Art galleries might fill with AI images that resemble masterpieces. Films could be scripted by pattern recognition, and journalism reduced to rephrased data summaries. 

In every case, true originality—the kind that comes from personal struggle, surprise, and deep experience—gets pushed aside in favor of efficient imitation.

Of course, AI isn’t all bad. It’s extremely useful for routine, repetitive tasks. It can manage supply chains, analyze medical scans, process massive datasets, and automate paperwork—freeing people to focus on more meaningful work. In these areas, AI boosts productivity and reduces tedium.

But when it enters the arts, the stakes are different. Creative work isn’t about speed or efficiency—it’s about authenticity, emotion, and the slow, messy process of turning ideas into something real. 

Replacing that with AI doesn’t merely threaten livelihoods; it risks diminishing what makes art matter. Veterans like Randy Travis and Martina McBride have spoken out against unauthorized AI versions of their voices, and in 2024, hundreds of musicians from Billie Eilish to Stevie Wonder signed a letter urging tech companies not to build tools that replace human creators.

When an AI song like “Walk My Walk” hits number one, it’s not a chart win—it’s a warning. We’re deciding, whether we mean to or not, how much of our culture we’re willing to outsource to machines. 

Without clear rules and real transparency, we may soon wake up in a world where everything feels real, but very little actually is.

Or perhaps we’re already there?

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