AI Audio Protection Standard
OverviewWhat is AIAPS?
AIAPS, the AI Audio Protection Standard, is a public specification that lets musicians and rights holders put two things on the public record: that a recording is not authorized for AI training, and, where the artist chooses to declare it, that the recording is human-made, created without generative AI. It combines proven techniques from the music industry into a single verifiable declaration that travels with the audio. Every protected track carries a timestamped record like this one, establishing the rights holder's stated terms and the recording's declared origin for any legal framework, platform, or licensing system to reference.
AIAPS Protection Certificate
VerifiedAIAPS Protected - NO_AI_TRAINING
Usage Policy
This recording is registered under the AI Audio Protection Standard (AIAPS) and is designated as not authorized for AI training, dataset ingestion, voice cloning, style modeling, or synthetic generation without permission from the rights holder.
AIAPS Registry - Verified Record
Rev. 1.2
Section 01 - Precedent
AIAPS Creates a Record. It Does Not Block AI.
It follows a long line of public signaling systems. They don't enforce. They establish the terms. Everything else references them.
01
robots.txt
Does not block crawlers. Establishes a published preference that well-behaved systems honor and bad actors are on record for ignoring.
02
Copyright notice / ISRC
Does not prevent copying. Establishes authorship and a referenceable record that legal and industry systems can cite.
03
"No Trespassing" sign
Does not physically stop anyone. Changes the legal and social meaning of the act.
04
AIAPS
Creates a public, timestamped, cryptographically verifiable record of your stated terms. Any future framework (legal, regulatory, platform policy, licensing) can reference it.
The more recordings on record, the stronger every declaration becomes. Getting on record now means your terms predate the frameworks that will reference them.
Section 02 - Three Components
Three Components
AIAPS brings together techniques that are already widely used throughout the music industry. None of them modify your audio. Your master is exported as a bit-perfect copy.
Component 01
Audio Fingerprint
A perceptual fingerprint derived from the spectral structure of the recording. Designed to survive lossy compression (MP3, AAC, OGG) and used to identify and match the audio in the AIAPS registry.
Component 02
Registry Record
Each AIAPS-protected recording receives a unique AIAPS ID and a timestamped registry entry linking the fingerprint, policy, and rights-holder declaration.
Component 03
Metadata Notice
An AIAPS-PROTECTED notice written to the file's metadata tags where supported by the format, providing a human-readable and machine-readable declaration that the recording is not authorized for AI training.
Section 03 - Creation Declaration
Declaring a Recording Human-Made
A registered track can also carry a Creation Declaration: a formal, timestamped statement by the rights holder that the recording was made by people, without generative AI. It is recorded in the registry alongside the track's fingerprint, so listeners, platforms, and licensing systems can check it the same way they verify protection.
The declaration is attested, not verified. AIAPS records who declared what and when, and puts the artist's name behind the claim on the public record. Under the standard, a false declaration can be revoked as a governance action and publicly marked.
A track without a declaration is simply undeclared. Absence says nothing about how a recording was made.
Adopt the Standard
Download the AIAPS Plugin
The AIAPS Plugin is the official implementation of the AIAPS standard. Protect, register, and verify your recordings. Now in early access for macOS.
macOS • AU, VST3, Standalone