New Tool Contaminates and Manipulates AI Art Generators
Months ago, a group of computer scientists from the University of Chicago (“UChicago”) worked with human artists to launch a tool to protect creatives from...
Months ago, a group of computer scientists from the University of Chicago (“UChicago”) worked with human artists to launch a tool to protect creatives from having their artwork stolen by AI art tools. That tool is called Glaze. The same UChicago team behind Glaze have now launched a second tool called Nightshade, which is able to ‘‘poison’’ AI art generators like Midjourney and DALL-E. Here’s how it works, and why the tool is important. What is Nightshade? Nightshade is a “data poisoning” tool that lets artists add invisible alterations in their artwork that would corrupt or poison AI art generators...