As AI-made music floods streaming platforms, listeners increasingly struggle to tell which tracks come from human artists and which were produced by machines. Google's music service is now moving to clear up that gray area.

In an announcement published on Wednesday, the company said it has built a labeling system for YouTube Music that will reveal whether artificial intelligence was used in a song's production — putting that information directly in front of listeners.

Tap the label for the details

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The label will appear in the player interface shown while a song is playing. Tapping it brings up detailed information explaining what role AI played in creating that particular track.

Notably, the system won't be limited to YouTube Music. Content shared on the main YouTube app will also fall under the same labeling scheme.

YouTube says it developed the infrastructure in collaboration with various music industry partners, drawing on its own developer tools. According to information shared on Google's support pages, uploaders will be able to tag their tracks with one of three options: "Fully Gen AI", "Partly Gen AI" and "No Gen AI".