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Will Simpson

“With this poisoned music out there, we can bring AI firms to the negotiating table for fair licensing of training data for independent musicians”: Could Poison Pill be the antidote to illegal AI scraping?

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A new startup has launched what could be a valuable weapon for independent artists in the fight against generative AI.

It’s called Poison Pill, an appropriate name because in essence it disrupts the learning of AI models by inserting low-level noise. The noise is undetectable to the human ear, but it’s enough to throw the AI off the scent, confusing it so it gets mixed up between different genres.

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