New streaming app Coda Music is rolling out tools for labeling and blocking AI-generated tunes (www.engadget.com)

Coda Music, a newcomer streaming app, is rolling out an AI-identification toolkit to flag, label and let users block songs created by generative systems. Every artist submitted to the platform will be reviewed for AI origins and labeled “AI Artist” when applicable; listeners can also flag suspect profiles for review. Coda adds a user-facing toggle to hide AI artists entirely. The tools are live on iOS and Android today (web coming soon), and arrive alongside other platform differentiators: a higher per-stream payout claim, a $1 monthly tip option to a chosen independent artist, and a social feed focused on human recommendations. For the AI/ML community the move is notable because it operationalizes detection and labeling as part of music discovery and moderation—shaping incentives for creators and affecting how synthetic music is surfaced or suppressed. Key implications include reliance on the accuracy and scalability of AI-detection methods (false positives/negatives could impact real artists), new moderation workflows combining automated screening with human review, and a potential precedent for other services to expose provenance metadata. If effective, Coda’s approach could pressure incumbents to offer provenance controls and influence the balance between synthetic creativity and protections for human artists.