The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

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.
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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.

    • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
      488·
      11 months ago

      I don’t see a problem with it training on all materials, fuck copyright. I see the problem in it infringing on everyone’s copyright and then being proprietary, monetized bullshit.

      If it trains on an open dataset, it must be completely and fully open. Everything else is peak capitalism.

      • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1418·
        11 months ago

        You’re not owed nor entitled to an artist’s time and work for free.

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          I am perfectly entitled to type random stuff into google images, pick out images for a mood board and some as reference, regardless of their copyright status, thank you. Studying is not infringement.

          It’s what every artist does, it’s perfectly legal, and what those models do is actually even less infringing because they’re not directly looking at your picture of a giraffe and my picture of a zebra when drawing a zebra-striped giraffe, they’re doing it from memory.

            • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
              11·
              11 months ago

              And if you think that working with AI does not take effort you either did not try, or don’t have an artistic bone in your body. Randos typing “Woman with huge bazingas” into an UI and hitting generate don’t get copyright on the output, rightly so: Not just did they not do anything artistic, they also overlook all the issues with whatever gets generated because they lack the trained eye of an artist.

    • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      123·
      11 months ago

      Until the law catches up with the technology, people need ways of protecting themselves.

      I agree, and I wonder if the law might be kicked into catching up quicker as more companies try to adopt these tools and inadvertently infringe on other companies’ copyrighted material. 😅

    • regbin_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      116·
      11 months ago

      Disagree. It’s only unethical if you use it to generate the artist’s existing pieces and claim it as yours.