To quote Fugazi, "It don't matter what they're sellin, it's what you're buying."

Who cares if people are mass uploading AI content? I care what the listen rates are.

It's mostly the extremely high levels of fraud associated with such submissions than the content in itself. In Deezer's case:

> The consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, at 1-3% of total streams, and 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and demonetized by the company.

If they were more commonly consumed by real revenue generating users then these companies likely wouldn't care as much. As it stands, it saves them a lot of money at very little real user downside to try to catch the fraud at both ends (the fake listeners + the fake uploads) rather than just one end.

With songs like "A Million Amelias"... millions, apparently.

No matter how many AI tracks I blocked / downvoted on Spotify, they kept recommending them to me. It made me cancel my account. The thing is, from the consumer point of view, you can barely tell if it's playing in the background. Even if 90% of the streams are fraudulent, the remaining 10% is still real people who are none the wiser, but who would probably rather patronize human artists if given the choice.