A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways.
The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.
AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond.
Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows.
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Random drawings I did while in the hospital
Drawing a biblically accurate Jeff is satisfying af
Plz give my other art some Sugar too
Vacation sketches: 30th july 2024
Drawing them so cartoony feels so nostalgic
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jeff's just contemplating his decisions in his entire life. [COPE]
this is also liu's room [ hc : he's one of the least insane and cleanest people ] so why are the people he hated the most + two randoms in his room? he doesn't even know.
—— jeff just wanted emotional support, nina tried to be jeff's emotional support, toby? nah idk either, ben was there for the snacks. AT THE END OF THE DAY, they were there for gossips
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I've got you under my skin
I've got you deep in the heart of me
So deep in my heart that you're really a part of me
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WHY DOES ART TAKE SO LONG
anyways zooble
they were gonna just be standing there but then I accidentally made them look into the middle-distance and didn't fix it, so it's not a mistake it's an artistic choice!
(reblogs are appreciated)
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Jeff, the most beautiful one between all the creepypastas-
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