SubmitHub says its AI detector found signs of machine generation in 38.5 per cent of the music put out worldwide during July 2026. The platform, which lets people submit songs to playlists and blogs, ran the tool over more than a million releases from that month. NME reported the findings on 19 August 2026, crediting Mixmag.
The headline figure is two numbers added together. The detector marked 23.2 per cent of what it read as fully generated by artificial intelligence, and a further 15.3 per cent as carrying AI-generated audio that had then been modified or processed by a person. Both are outputs from one company's tool on the releases it could see, not an audited count of the world's music.
The tool is called SH Labs and launched earlier in the summer. SubmitHub frames it as an answer to what it calls a growing disclosure problem rather than as a ban on anything.
Jason Grishkoff, who founded the platform, said the route through this is telling listeners what they are hearing. "I think the path forward for AI music is disclosure," he said, adding that people should be able to decide for themselves whether they want to engage with AI-generated music and that his job is to give them enough information to choose.
Bandcamp, Traxsource and the German rights body GEMA all use the same detector, per NME. GEMA won a German copyright ruling against the AI music generator Suno last month. Bandcamp banned AI-created music at the start of the year and Beatport followed in August, while TIDAL said it would not pay royalties on material made entirely by artificial intelligence.
Deezer has said AI-generated music now accounts for more than half of its daily uploads, Spotify is introducing labelling so listeners can identify AI artists, and Apple Music has set out plans of its own. The major and independent labels have separately proposed rules for how AI tracks should be treated on the charts. None of that changes what SubmitHub actually measured, which is one detector's read on one month of releases.
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- SubmitHub's detector analysed more than a million releases from July 2026.
- It flagged 23.2 per cent as fully AI-generated.
- It flagged 15.3 per cent as AI audio modified or processed by humans.
- The two figures together come to 38.5 per cent.
- The tool is called SH Labs and launched earlier in summer 2026.
- Founder Jason Grishkoff said the path forward is disclosure.
- Bandcamp, Traxsource and GEMA also use the detector.
- NME reported the findings on 19 August 2026, citing Mixmag.
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