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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

Image credit: Stephanie Arnett / MITTR | Reijksmuseum, Envato. Article by . MIT Technology Review – October 23, 2023.

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. […]