Poison-pilling Music Files
posted 3 days ago #
You may recall I have mentioned various "AI poison-pill" concepts in the past. HarmonyCloak buries imperceptible noise into a track that makes it unusable by AI. Nightshade is a similar theory for images.
Benn Jordan's latest video - The Art of Poison-Pilling Music Files - takes those theories into practical application. He walks through the theory and then shows multiple examples of how to obfuscate the actual material of a song when being interpreted by a machine. It's truly fascinating.
It's also quite sad that we're in such early days of AI and already have the need to create tools to "combat" the machines. When Jordan shows his Mute Attack Method - in which Alexa simply does not hear him b/c of a device he has activated - it feels like a prototype scene from Snow Crash. The hackers have come up with their little tools to fight the machines, however small.
I look forward to Jordan distributing his next album with this pill baked in and, hopefully, the technology can become accessible enough for others to do it as well.
Benn Jordan's latest video - The Art of Poison-Pilling Music Files - takes those theories into practical application. He walks through the theory and then shows multiple examples of how to obfuscate the actual material of a song when being interpreted by a machine. It's truly fascinating.
It's also quite sad that we're in such early days of AI and already have the need to create tools to "combat" the machines. When Jordan shows his Mute Attack Method - in which Alexa simply does not hear him b/c of a device he has activated - it feels like a prototype scene from Snow Crash. The hackers have come up with their little tools to fight the machines, however small.
I look forward to Jordan distributing his next album with this pill baked in and, hopefully, the technology can become accessible enough for others to do it as well.