Manifesto
The right to know where music comes from
The founding text of VERIMUSIC sets out six demands, and anyone can sign it.
Every day, tens of thousands of AI-generated tracks reach streaming platforms. According to Deezer, around 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks a day were delivered to its service at the peak in June 2026, more than half of all the tracks it received.
We are not campaigning against artificial intelligence. For as long as people have made music, they have taken up the tools of their time, and we see no reason why AI should be any different. We stand up for human artists and the music they create, and for the people who listen to it, who have every right to know where it comes from.
Where things stand
When half the tracks delivered are produced automatically, human creation is drowned out. It has to compete with this mass production for the visibility that lets artists be discovered and, in the end, for income, since every stream captured by a mass-produced track eats into the money paid to artists.
Faced with this influx, platforms and distributors detect, label and block tracks, and few of them explain what their decisions are based on. There is no appeal procedure common to all platforms and distributors, so an artist whose track is blocked can be left not knowing why, who to contact or what evidence is expected of them.
Platforms report impressive accuracy rates, and we are quite willing to believe them. Yet, to our knowledge, no one has verified them independently. Which tracks and which genres were these rates measured on, and did they include music made far from the big studios? And will a detector that is reliable today still be reliable against tomorrow's generators?
In practice, music does not sit easily with these verdicts. More and more artists turn to AI tools for mastering, a sound or a first idea, while platforms still sort music into "AI" and "not AI", and the disputes to come will be fought out in this grey area.
Then there is the question of consent. Voice cloning now means that anyone can be made to sing without their consent, and the result released under their name or alongside it. The use of copyright-protected works to train AI models without their creators' consent is now being contested in court.
Our six demands
1. The right to know
Every listener must be able to see at a glance whether and how AI was used to make the track they are listening to. The EU has begun to regulate transparency for AI-generated content, and we ask that this transparency reach the screens on which people actually listen to music.
2. Detectors open to independent scrutiny
Those who detect AI-generated music must publish their methods and error rates and have them checked by independent third parties. Those error rates must also be measured on under-represented genres and musical traditions, and on low-budget productions.
3. An effective right of appeal
Artists must be able to challenge any decision that blocks, labels or demonetises a track. They must be told why the decision was made, have a real person they can contact, and know what evidence will be accepted and when to expect a response.
4. Revenue for human artists
Artificial streaming must be tackled, and mass production must not dilute artists' share of streaming revenue.
5. Recognition of hybrid creation
Every artist must be able to state whether and how they used AI in their work, without being forced into a binary verdict. A simple declaration must let them choose between human creation, AI-assisted and AI-generated, and name the tools they used.
6. Consent to the use of voices and works
Works must not be used to train AI without their creators' consent, and no one's voice may be cloned, released or monetised without their consent. Voiceprints are biometric data and must be protected, including by anyone who claims to verify voices.
Our work
VERIMUSIC is an open and independent platform devoted to the human provenance of music. We are starting with an observatory of disputed decisions. If one of your tracks has been labelled as AI-generated, blocked or demonetised and you dispute the decision, tell us what happened. Each documented case, anonymised if you wish, helps bring these decisions into public view.
Every month, we explain in plain language what is changing at the platforms, in the rules and in the tools.
Since 2025, VERIMUSIC has also been developing a method and a protocol for documenting the human provenance of a piece of music. We commit to making our tools, standards and protocols freely available under an open licence, so anyone can use them and examine how they work.
Sign the manifesto
Whether you are an artist, producer, record label, distributor or listener, sign this manifesto if these demands are yours too. If you have experienced any of the situations it describes, your story matters just as much. And anyone can help by passing this text on.
Adel Hendaoui
PhD in Information Systems
Musician, composer
Founder of VERIMUSIC
VERIMUSIC® is a trade mark registered in France with INPI, the French intellectual property office (no. 5202511).
Updated 12/10/2026
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