Can you hear whether a track was made by an AI music generator? This page sends you to a listening test: 35 short clips of AI-generated and real music, with the answer shown after every one.
We make audio cleanup tools and ArtifactNet, a detector, so we say plainly what this is: a public quiz run by Intrect, not a controlled experiment and not a test of any detector. Your score describes your listening in one run.
The short answer
Short answer. There is no single tell. The listening test lets you find out how you do on its own clips, and it shows what each clip was after you answer. Play it first, then come back to this page: the second half is about hearing what an artifact remover does to a track of your own.
How the listening test works
- You hear a 12-second clip and choose AI or Real. After every answer the page shows what the clip was: the generator and version for an AI clip, the title, artist and licence for a real recording.
- A five-clip warm-up costs nothing, then come six stages of five clips each. Later stages use shorter clips (8 and 4 seconds) and lower-bitrate audio (128 and 64 kbps).
- You have three lives from the first scored stage. A wrong answer costs one life, and at zero the run ends.
- No account is needed. The test sets no cookies and loads no analytics. A leaderboard nickname and a short profile about your listening are optional.
Where the clips come from
The AI clips come from Suno and ACE-Step 1.5. The real clips are recordings from the Free Music Archive under CC BY, CC BY-SA or public-domain licences, credited after each answer. Every clip goes through the same loudness and encoding chain. The pool is small and the real tracks lean indie, so read your score as a score on these clips only. The method page lists what the pool contains and what was left out, and why.
Play the listening test
Thirty-five clips, no account, nothing to install. When you finish, come back to this page: the next section is written for after you have played.
After you have played
Whatever you scored, the reveal after each answer named what you were listening to. AI generators leave their own artifacts in the audio they produce; what an audio artifact is and what Suno leaves in a track describe them. To check a track of your own rather than a quiz clip, the guide on how to detect AI-generated music compares listening cues, spectrograms and a detector.
If you make music with AI, you can hear what de-artifact’s cleanup does to a track of your own. Upload one to the free preview: it returns a 30-second cleanup preview you can compare with the original, and it needs no account.
Hear it on your own track
A free 30-second preview of de-artifact’s cleanup next to the original. No account.
The preview covers the first 30 seconds of a track. To clean a whole track, see the pricing page.
What the listening test cannot tell you
- It is not a measure of listeners in general. The clips are Suno and ACE-Step against indie recordings from one archive, and vocals are not matched between the two sides.
- The players are self-selected. They are people who found a link, and headphones and listening conditions are unknown.
- Later stages measure a detector as much as you. From the third stage on, more clips are ones a machine detector found hard. That is a measure of the machine, not of people.
- A score here says nothing about any detector. A detection score, ours or anyone’s, is evidence for a person to review, not a verdict about who made a track.
Who runs it
Intrect, a company that makes audio software and detection tools, runs the test. Its privacy page lists exactly what it stores: answers and scores, without your IP address or user agent.
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FAQ
Is the AI music listening test free?
Yes. It needs no account, sets no cookies and loads no analytics. A leaderboard nickname and a short profile about your listening are optional.
Does the listening test show whether people can tell AI music from real music?
Only on its own clips. They are Suno and ACE-Step clips set against indie recordings from the Free Music Archive, vocals are not matched between the two sides, and the players are people who found a link. A score describes your listening in one run, not listeners in general.
Who runs the listening test and what does it store?
Intrect, a company that makes audio software and detection tools, runs it. It stores your answers and score on the server without your IP address or user agent. The privacy page of the test lists everything it stores.