Audio Poisoning Against AI
Hello Friend,
Do you want to protect your music from AI scrapers for free?
I have reverse engineered an audio sample that can be used in protecting artists’ musical work from AI generation platforms such as Suno and Udio. The active platform that offer the dynamic services for poison pilling audio has a profit incentive, but I believe that the ability to poison pill your audio against AI should not cost money, as it is every musicians right to protect their music from AI companies’ song scrapers.
This is why I have developed a way to do that without cost.
This audio sample, when layered onto a mastered track, or simply included in the mix, makes AI music models misinterpret the music and mis-categorize aspects such as genre, tempo, scale, and instrument type. It also makes it harder for the model to replicate and understand the composition of the music.
For example, when I plug in a piano based boom-bap beat into Suno, it will output its categorization as such:
Boom bap hip hop, gritty, lo-fi aesthetic, A repetitive, four-bar piano loop dusty texture, A sub-heavy electric bass, The tempo is 90 BPM in 4/4 time
The poison pilled audio returns a different interpretation:
Alternative rock, distorted electric guitar palm-muted riff, Clean electric guitar, bass guitar is heavily distorted. The tempo is 100 BPM in 4/4 time
This demonstrates how applying the poison audio sample will distort an AI model’s perception of your music, protecting your creative uniqueness, as well as degrading the model’s overall efficiency in new generated media.
This audio poison is subtly audible on high definition systems but is less noticeable on regular systems. It sounds like a tape distortion effect, and is more effective the louder it is. I have found determined the sweet spot to be -45dB.
The company that has applied the poison pill to my reverse engineered audio sample assigns any output rights for their generation to me, the original user, so I am free to distribute this audio file as a tool for artists and producers to help combat unauthorized AI scrapers.
While it does not prevent AI music scrapers from stealing your music, it is certainly a step in the right direction towards fighting back against it.
If you know of any artists, producers, or other colleagues that are interested in this, please forward this sample to them.
Your producer friend in the hacker space,
-ZU1PH3R
(published hacker and award winning music producer)