New 'Nightshade' tool poisons AI training data to protect artists' work from unauthorized use

A new tool called Nightshade can add invisible pixels to images to protect art from being used without permission by AI image generators.

Nightshade was created by researchers at the University of Chicago to help fight back against AI companies using art without artist consent.

The tool "poisons" training data so AI models learn to interpret images incorrectly, like seeing a car as a cow.

Nightshade will be free and open source so more creators can use it to protect work shared online.

If enough artists use Nightshade, it could encourage AI companies to properly credit and compensate original creators.