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Nightshade, the tool that ‘poisons’ data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI
Intentionally poisoning someone else is never morally right. But if someone in the office keeps swiping your lunch, wouldn't you resort to petty Like putting hot sauce in your lunch to deter stealing, Nightshade poisons data used for AI training, giving artists a way to fight back against scraping without consent.
Ben Zhao, a computer science professor who led the project, compared Nightshade to “putting hot sauce in your lunch so it doesn’t get stolen from the workplace fridge.” An unaltered image of the Mona Lisa and a shaded version are virtually identical to humans, but instead of interpreting the “poisoned” sample as a portrait of a woman, AI will “see” it as a cat wearing a robe. Big Tech has really grabbed onto this as an easy way to make profit and engage a much wider portion of the population, as compared to a more scientific AI that actually has fundamental, breakthrough capabilities and amazing applications.”
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