Posted 1/26/2024, 11:59:11 PM
New 'Nightshade' Program Poisons Art to Protect Artists' Work from Generative AI Copying
- Nightshade is a program developed at the University of Chicago that poisons digital art so AI can't replicate it
- It protects artists' work from being copied without permission by generative AI systems
- Nightshade makes tiny changes to images that AI interprets differently but humans barely notice
- The goal is to make scraping training data expensive so AI companies pay artists properly
- Nightshade will be publicly released this month for individual artists; companies are also interested