Poison Pill
Poison Pill embeds imperceptible adversarial noise into music files to prevent AI models from using those tracks as training data without consent.
About
Poison Pill was a music protection tool that added inaudible adversarial signals to audio files, designed to corrupt the way AI training pipelines learn from the protected tracks. The idea was to make unlicensed scraping costly enough that AI companies would prefer to negotiate licensing deals with independent artists instead. The tool was developed with independent musicians and rights holders in mind. As of late 2025, Poison Pill ceased operations and the site now redirects to Direct.app, a related platform for selling music directly to fans.