As image-generating AI continues to evolve, artists are increasingly fighting against what they see as an existential threat to their craft. Two tools created by researchers from the University of Chicago, Glaze and Nightshade, essentially poison the well of art uploaded online in an attempt to scramble what AI sees.
LOS ANGELES — The oil painting depicts a woman standing on a podium, her arm aloft as she grasps a laurel crown in her hand. A scarlet cloak drapes across her chest as she stares at the viewer. To the naked eye, the painting looks like a normal piece in an online portfolio. But the version of the painting uploaded online belies a hidden defense system — a tool called Glaze that masks the artist’s style and cloaks the art from use by generative AI.
The team working on Glaze and Nightshade noted that their tools serve as a safeguard in a space that lacks regulation rather than as a comprehensive solution. Where lawsuits and government regulations might force tech giants like Microsoft or OpenAI to change how they operate, smaller AI players outside of the United States might not follow suit, researchers said. In those instances, the AI scrambling tools will still be useful.
Ortiz is one of three artists seeking to protect their copyrights and careers by suing makers of AI tools that can generate. The suit against Stability AI, the London-based maker of text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion, alleges that the AI image-generators violate the rights of millions of artists by ingesting huge troves of digital images and then producing derivative works that compete against the originals.
Experts say anti-AI tools do provide some protection by making it harder for people trying to use AI to mimic an artist’s style, but they don’t eradicate the problem. As AI models evolve, they will likely become harder to attack or throw off. Shan, the University of Chicago researcher, agreed that the anti-AI tools are “far from future-proof.”
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