This Free Tool Poisons AI Models To Prevent Them From Stealing Your Work But Some Say It’s Akin to Illegal Hacking

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Artists have long sought ways to protect their creative works from unsanctioned use, particularly by AI models that train on vast swathes of internet data, often without permission.

Enter Nightshade v1.0: a cutting-edge tool released by computer scientists at the University of Chicago that provides artists with a digital shield to guard their creations against unwanted AI consumption, VentureBeat reported. Nightshade is the “offensive” counterpart to its predecessor, Glaze — a tool designed to obfuscate an artist’s style from AIs.

Glaze’s changes to works of art are “like UV light” — not detectable by the naked eye. “The models, they have mathematical functions looking at images very, very differently from just how the human eye looks,” Shawn Shan, a grad researcher at the University of Chicago, told IT Brew….Story continues

By: AMANDA BREEN

Source: Marketing Scoops: This Free Tool Poisons AI Models To Prevent Them From Stealing Your Work But Some Say It’s Akin to Illegal Hacking

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