Jerry Heil wants AI songs banned from Ukrainian radio, citing Australia, where the ban covers charts, not radio

Jerry Heil wants Ukraine to make it illegal for radio stations to rotate AI-generated songs.

The singer, who finished third for Ukraine at Eurovision 2024 with alyona alyona, posted the call on her Telegram channel on November 9, 2026. She says Ukrainian radio is being turned into an “AI cesspool” by people who would rather not pay artists, and she points to Australia as the country that already did it. The post passed 5,600 views by the next morning.

Australia did ban fully AI-generated songs this year, but from its official charts. Australian radio has no matching rule yet, only a duty to tell listeners when an AI voice hosts a show.

What Jerry Heil wrote about AI songs on Ukrainian radio

Heil opens the post by admitting she got it wrong. She remembers writing that AI tracks would push the industry to grow, “to write from the soul, to write the real thing”. Then: “how wrong I was.”

I translated the post from Ukrainian, so the wording below is mine and the meaning is hers. She blames 3 groups: whoever fills the airwaves with generated tracks, the listeners who “passionately” consume them, and the lawmakers who don’t regulate it. She also calls out artists who make a “cheap polyester sound” part of their music instead of working from the first note to the master.

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Why pay artists if you can generate flat 'tracks' and stuff the airwaves with them?

Her call comes at the end: “I’m so angry. In Ukraine they have to ban AI rotation on the radio, it’s unacceptable, it kills the economy, destroys the industry, shapes the taste and level of cultural need of generations and of the people as a whole. This has to be strictly controlled, the way they already did in Australia. For now I believe it will happen.”

She doesn’t name a station, a song or a figure for how much AI is on air. dev.ua picked the post up on November 10.

Ukraine already regulates what its radio plays, by language. The Law On Media requires at least 40% of songs in Ukrainian on most stations, and the National Council checked 24 radio stations in July and August 2026 without finding a violation. I found no Ukrainian rule that singles out AI-generated songs.

Did Australia ban AI music on the radio, as Jerry Heil says?

Australia banned it from the charts. ARIA, which runs the official Australian charts, updated its Charts Code of Practice on August 25, 2026, and wholly AI-generated songs have been out since the charts of Friday, August 28. A track has to be “substantially human-made” to count, ABC News reported.

Radio is what started it. Josh Fawaz’s AI rework of Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” became the most-played song on Australian radio in June.

ARIA chief executive Annabelle Herd then asked the stations to follow: “We call on all parties who have a role in deciding the music played and promoted to Australian audiences, particularly radio, to support human artistry and implement similar changes across their own codes.”

I found no published answer from the radio side. The only AI rule Australian commercial radio has is in the Commercial Radio Code of Practice 2026, which ACMA registered on February 10: stations must tell listeners when a synthetic voice hosts a regular program or news bulletin. That rule covers AI hosts, not the songs they play.

Which radio networks and charts already restrict AI music in 2026

These 4 have set their own rules on AI music:

• iHeartMedia (US): since November 24, 2025, every station runs a “Guaranteed Human” hourly ID. Tom Poleman, President of National Programming Platforms, told staff in a memo published by RadioInsight: “We don’t play AI music that features synthetic vocalists pretending to be human.”
• ARIA (Australia): wholly AI-generated songs are off the official charts since August 28, 2026. Enforcing it is the open part.
• IFPI Finland: the Official Finnish Chart shut out recordings made entirely with AI at the end of August 2026.
• NRK (Norway): the public broadcaster bans pure AI compositions from Melodi Grand Prix 2027, its Eurovision selection.

All 4 are rules that a company or an industry body set for itself. Heil is asking Ukraine’s lawmakers for a law.