Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Lehigh University have now developed a new tool that could help musicians protect their work from being fed into the machine. It’s called HarmonyCloak, and it works by effectively embedding a new layer of noise into music that human ears can’t detect but AI 'ears' can’t tune out.

This extra noise is dynamically created to blend into the specific characteristics of any given piece of music, remaining below the human hearing threshold. But any errant AI models that scrape the music can’t figure out which bits to ignore, so it kind of poisons the well and ruins their attempts at recreation.