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This tool makes AI models hallucinate cats to fight copyright infringement
Nightshade aims to help artists prevent image generators from easily reproducing their work, but the researchers behind it warn more intellectual property safeguards are needed.
A tool called Nightshade, released in January by University of Chicago researchers, changes images in small ways that are nearly invisible to the human eye but look dramatically different to AI platforms that ingest them. Ben Zhao, a computer science professor who runs the University of Chicago lab that developed Nightshade, doesn’t expect mass uptake of the tool anywhere near a level that would threaten to take down AI image generators. The University of Chicago researchers acknowledge the likelihood of “potential defenses” against Nightshade’s image-poisoning, as AI platforms are updated to filter out data and images suspected of having gone through “abnormal change.”
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