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Apple Music to Label AI-Generated Songs
Thursday August 20, 2026 4:41 pm PDT by Juli Clover<br>Apple sent emails to its music industry partners about the upcoming launch of a Made With AI label that Apple will apply to AI-generated content (via The Hollywood Reporter).
Content tagged as being "materially generated using AI" will have a label visible to all Apple Music users.
In March, Apple announced Transparency Tags, a system that lets music creators disclose when AI has been used. Transparency Tags are available for artwork, track, composition (lyrics), and music video. Apple said at the time that the tags were optional, and it would defer to content providers to determine what qualifies as AI-generated.
In today's email, Apple says AI Transparency Tags are required in "any instance where AI was used to create a material portion of the content, including tracks that are AI platform generated." Apple said AI-platform-generated content is defined as "anything that is primarily derived from a generative AI service."
Back in April, ‌Apple Music‌ VP Oliver Schusser told Billboard that more than a third of monthly uploads to ‌Apple Music‌ are 100% AI-generated, but AI music accounted for less than 0.5% of actual listening. Schusser said Apple has an in-house system for detecting AI, but is still relying on content makers to disclose AI use.
Apple's email did not give a specific timeline for the launch of the AI labels in ‌Apple Music‌, but said they will show up "later this year."
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Top Rated Comments
LegendaryTechnician<br>4 hours ago at 05:01 pm
How about just not allowing AI-generated songs period?<br>Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
smkbrvo<br>4 hours ago at 04:43 pm
This is great. It will make it easy to see which "artists" to block.<br>Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
FeliApple<br>4 hours ago at 05:12 pm
How about deleting these “songs” automatically and immediately banning the “artists” forever without recourse?
That’s a better solution.<br>Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Happy_John<br>4 hours ago at 04:49 pm
Such "transparency tags" would be nice on this site / forum - both for original articles and for comments in threads.<br>Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
turbineseaplane<br>3 hours ago at 05:56 pm
There's a world of difference between a human using a computer and its tooling to help create their music and straight up AI generated songs.<br>Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
LegendaryTechnician<br>3 hours ago at 05:34 pm
That is an extremist anti-technology position that will hurt people and do nothing. It’s always the usual suspects who take extreme positions and if you look at their posting history it is full of hatred, conspiracy theories and even pro piracy which has hurt artists more than anything.
Synthetic samples and computer generated sounds have existed in music for 60 years. You are basically advocating for a ban on electronic genres just because some anti-AI mania on the internet told you that it is cool to hate.
AI music isn’t just “Hi bot generate me a song”. It can be a thousand things from generating a beat or an effect or a voice filter. All of these have been used for decades using more primitive forms of AI and computer...