OT: The Art Of Poison-Pilling Music Files

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.

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.