this artist is human

Fully AI-generated artists are exploding across music streaming services, and listeners have no idea.

this artist is human is a movement focused on keeping humans at the center of music-making.

Streaming services must clearly label fully AI-generated songs.

Open LetterAI Artist Leaderboard

Royalties lost since you opened this page

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This Artist is Not Human.

AI-generated songs now make up nearly 40% of music uploaded to streaming services daily. Only 3% of listeners can reliably tell the difference. Most have no idea.

Their royalty payouts come directly at the expense of human artists. At a minimum, listeners deserve transparency.

Confirmed royalties lost by human artists

$2,138,130/yr

$178,177/mo across 44,544,371 monthly listeners

Based on 81 flagged artists at $0.004/stream

Top flagged artists

ArtistMonthly Listeners
1.Sienna Rose
Sienna Rose• Deezer AI detection system flagged all content as AI-generated (TechRadar)• Pex AI Song Detector confirmed tracks were generated with Suno• 45+ tracks uploaded between September and December 2025
2,787,295
2.Kayla Kross
Kayla Kross• Ranked #8 on the SIQA AI Music Hot 100, the first official AI music chart (Music…• Listed on Soul Over AI directory with signals: very high release throughput, AI-…• Released under Fifty Five Music Group, a label with 610 albums on Qobuz across m…
2,743,172
3.Breaking Rust
Breaking Rust• "Walk My Walk" reached #1 on the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart — th…• Created by Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor (alias Defbeatsai) using Suno and Udio (Holle…• No human performers involved in any recordings
2,047,308
4.Olivia B Moore
Olivia B Moore• Listed on Soul Over AI public index of AI-generated music artists• Artist's own Instagram reel states: "ai just helped me build the sound" — direct…• Community members on Threads noted the artist profile photo does not appear to b…
1,986,249
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1,944,262
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Sign the Open Letter

Open Letter

We, the undersigned members of the music community, demand that music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music label fully AI-generated songs and artists in the same way they label "explicit" songs.

Currently, fully AI artists are exploding across streaming services, accounting for 40% of daily song uploads. These artists are directly presented as real people, and many are created by companies, flooding streaming services at an industrial scale. This is a brazen escalation of the ongoing theft of human creativity by GenAI music companies. They built billion-dollar systems off our songs without permission or payment, and now, the products of these systems are siphoning royalties away from the very artists who trained them. Many human artists will not survive this financial erosion.

Fortunately, listeners do not want this to happen. No one appreciates the authenticity and human connection behind music better than listeners. They understand that while certain uses of AI tools can augment musicians' abilities, fully AI-generated music removes human creativity from the music-making process. And just like nutrition labels on food, listeners want to know what they're consuming.

As such, we demand that streaming services:

  1. Label fully AI-generated songs and artists, just like "explicit" songs
  2. Remove fully AI-generated songs from algorithmic recommendations
  3. Allow users to exclude fully AI-generated songs from their listening experience

We have not accepted the inevitability that AI will replace human art. And listeners haven't either. We admire Deezer for already labeling AI songs (though we urge them to make their labels more obvious). iHeartRadio and Bandcamp have removed AI songs entirely.

Inform your listeners, or they will leave you.

Sincerely,
Human musicians