Tidal Won’t Let You Monetize Fully AI-Generated Tracks
Tidal is cutting off monetization of AI-generated music but allowing impacted tracks to stay on the app. Starting July 15, 2026, fully AI-generated tracks won’t earn royalties or revenue on the platform.
In a new statement, Tidal’s executive vice president and editor-in-chief, Tony Gervino, said the company wants to prioritize “organic creativity” and artists whose livelihoods depend on streaming income.
“Tidal is not here to bash technological advancement,” he wrote. “…Our inboxes (and your world, we’re assuming) are inundated with music that is created completely AI-generated [sic] and impersonating existing artists purely for financial gain.”
Gervino added that “Many [users] have told us they do not want to be exposed to—or prompted to listen to—wholly AI-generated music.”
As a result, Tidal’s own internal tools will help the platform filter out AI tracks, though distributors who upload music can also flag songs as machine-made using transparency tags similar to those on Apple Music. The company also monitors AI songs that imitate real artists by copying their voices or likenesses and will block misleading uploads to protect real performers. AI songs will still be made available to listeners as long as they don’t violate these rules, but they won’t generate revenue for the artist/uploader.
If you want to know how many AI-generated songs are in your Tidal, Apple Music, YouTube Music, or Spotify library, try this tool by Deezer.
