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Subject: Re: OT:  The Art Of Poison-Pilling Music Files
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:41:50 -0000 (UTC)
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On Apr 16, 2025 at 9:24:22 AM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

> This is both great and scary. The idea is that you can encode messages
> into music or other sounds that an AI can pick up that no human would
> notice. In this video the designer goes into how he introduces the
> poison pills that do things like tell Alexa or Siri to do things while
> sounding perfectly normal to us.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm2d9bmEA
> The Art Of Poison-Pilling Music Files
> 
> He has an example of what sounds like a simple song from someone
> playing a piano. Nothing at all unusual in how it sounds. Yet the AI
> picks up a series of instructions and pops up a video. As he points
> out this could easily be an instruction to unlock all your doors.

Which wouldn't matter to people like me whose doors lock the old fashioned
way: when a human turns the bolt.

Just sayin'...

> In his case, as a musician, he wants to stop AI companies from using
> his and others music without proper compensation. Hence the idea of
> introducing a "poison pill" into their music that will corrupt the AI
> data bases if they use that music, and yet will sound perfectly normal
> to any human.