{"id":27513,"date":"2026-11-11T23:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T23:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/when-a-track-is-flagged-as-ai-a-policy-playbook-for-distributors\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T23:18:00","slug":"when-a-track-is-flagged-as-ai-a-policy-playbook-for-distributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/when-a-track-is-flagged-as-ai-a-policy-playbook-for-distributors\/","title":{"rendered":"When a Track Is Flagged as AI: A Policy Playbook for Distributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every AI music detector does the same simple thing: it listens to a track and returns a score. The score is the easy part. What a distributor does with it, the thresholds, the review step, the record you keep, is where a catalogue stays clean or quietly fills with tracks that should never have shipped.<\/p>\n<p>This is the policy layer that sits on top of any detector. A detector (a tool that scores audio for signs of AI generation) flags; a person decides. Here is how to write that down before you need it.<\/p>\n<h2>A score is a flag, not a confession<\/h2>\n<p>A detector returns a likelihood, not proof, and it can misfire. InterSpace Daily has <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/ai-music-detectors-flag-andre-graferts-album-and-1980s-recordings\/\">covered detectors flagging a human composer&#8217;s album and genuine 1980s recordings<\/a>: heavily processed or vintage audio can read as synthetic. Treat a high score as a reason to review, never as an automatic rejection that touches an artist&#8217;s release or royalties.<\/p>\n<h2>Set two thresholds, not one<\/h2>\n<p>One number is too blunt. Use two:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A review line.<\/strong> Below it, the track passes without a human look.<\/li>\n<li><strong>An action line.<\/strong> Above it, the track cannot move to any outcome that affects money or availability until a person signs off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Between the two lines, a reviewer listens. Tie both lines to the score itself, not only the verdict word, because a 0.55 and a 0.97 can carry the same label and mean very different things. Our explainer on <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/how-ai-music-detection-works\/\">how AI music detection works and how to read a verdict<\/a> covers that gap.<\/p>\n<h2>Decide what each band triggers<\/h2>\n<p>Map scores to actions in advance, so a reviewer is applying policy, not improvising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pass and deliver.<\/li>\n<li>Request an AI disclosure from the uploader.<\/li>\n<li>Hold for a second listen.<\/li>\n<li>Label the track as AI-assisted where a store requires it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Store rules decide how strict you have to be. <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/beatport-to-ban-fully-ai-generated-music-label-ai-assisted-tracks\/\">Beatport bans fully AI-generated music and labels AI-assisted tracks<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/tidal-to-tag-and-demonetize-ai-generated-music-starting-mid-july\/\">Tidal tags and demonetizes AI-generated music<\/a>. Your policy has to satisfy the strictest DSP (digital service provider) you deliver to.<\/p>\n<h2>Keep a record you can defend<\/h2>\n<p>For every track you screen, store the score, the model version and the time of the scan alongside the release. When an artist appeals a hold, or a store asks why a track was labelled, you can show the basis instead of reconstructing it. This is ordinary QC (quality control) hygiene, and it is the difference between a defensible decision and a guess.<\/p>\n<h2>Tell the artist what you found<\/h2>\n<p>When a track is held or asked to carry an AI label, say so plainly, and say why. An uploader who is told that a track scored high for AI-generated audio, and asked to confirm how it was made, can answer, correct the record, or withdraw the release. Silence turns a routine QC step into a grievance, and a clear, documented message doubles as your evidence if the dispute escalates.<\/p>\n<h2>Keep the tool advisory<\/h2>\n<p>The most important rule is the simplest: the detector never gets the final say. Build the workflow so a score opens a question and a human closes it. SEAM, the AI music detector built by The InterSpace Group (which also publishes InterSpace Daily), is advisory by design and never rejects, holds or approves a track on its own; whichever tool you use, keep that line. A distributor that auto-rejects on a score alone will eventually reject the wrong track, and the artist will be right.<\/p>\n<p>Write the policy down, give reviewers two clear lines and a record to lean on, and the detector becomes what it should be: a way to point attention, not a judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a track is flagged as AI, the score is the easy part; the policy around it is where distributors get it right. 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