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Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next | Artists must wait weeks for Glaze defense against AI scraping amid TOS updates


Artists must wait weeks for Glaze defense against AI scraping amid TOS updates.

But they don't provide a permanent solution at a time when tech companies appear determined to chase profits by building ever-more-sophisticated AI models that increasingly threaten to dilute artists' brands and replace them in the market. As tech companies update their products' terms—like when Meta suddenly announced that it was training AI on a billion Facebook and Instagram user photos last December—artists frantically survey the landscape for new defenses. Designed to help prevent style mimicry and even poison AI models to discourage data scraping without an artist's consent or compensation, The Glaze Project's tools are now in higher demand than ever.

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