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.
Invisible changes to pixels sound like pure BS to me. I’m sure others know more about it than i do but I thought pixels were very simple things.
Pixels are very simple things, literally 3-5 3 digit numbers.
But pixels mean little too a generative AI - it’s all about relationship between pixels. All AI are high dimensional shapes right now… If you break up the shape strategically, it’ll poison the image
Will this poison pill work? Probably, for at least a while…