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Software – A New App Aims To Protect Art And Stop AI Theft
Software – A New App Aims To Protect Art And Stop AI Theft.
Nightshade, a new software tool aimed at giving artists and creators peace of mind in the digital age, turned heads when it was announced last October. Designed by a team at the University of Chicago, the app has a unique way of protecting creative works from unauthorized use by generative artificial intelligence models. Now, it’s available for public use.
This digital vigilante takes an ‘offensive” approach in safeguarding digital artwork by “poisoning” the images, rendering them unsuitable for AI training purposes. This could be a lifesaver for creatives concerned that their original pieces are being scraped and used without their permission. The tool introduces a level of unpredictability into machine-learning models, which could result in the generation of unrelated images in response to specific prompts.
#Nightshade exploits the concept sparsity in the training data of text-to-image models.
By injecting a small number of carefully crafted poison samples, it can manipulate the model’s output for specific prompts. pic.twitter.com/2sMnKf3umB
— Deep AI Digest (@DeepAIDigest) January 22, 2024