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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (www.technologyreview.com)

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A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways.

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission.
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Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a dumb solution to a problem that doesn't need a solution. The problem isn't AI, it's the lack of understanding for the tech that has people thinking AI is theft.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I think people don't know what they are talking about.

You can look at a picture from an artist without it being considered theft, so are your memories and impressions theft? That's what training data does, it teaches AI what something looks like, with many samples. It's literally what your brain does, the way you see multiple dogs and know what a dog looks like is the same way that AI trains pattern recognition.

It's completely reasonable and desirable to have AI consume all available images, regardless of copyright the way your eyes and brain can do the same. Training data isn't theft no more than going to a museum and looking at art is theft.

This take that this is bad is completely unhinged and indicates people don't understand AI.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to be a musician, I also used to paint. I think my thought processes are no more complex than most computers, and I genuinely don't believe human creativity is special even a little bit, like consciousness, it's a subjective illusion.

I do not believe in things like copyright, or intellectual property, or even ownership of these things, I think these things should be collectively owned by society.

I don't disagree with you from lack of experience, I disagree from fundamentally different ideological underpinnings.

I believe there is nothing special about human perception and experience, and I can see the ways that technology maps near perfectly to the way we think. AI shouldn't be limited, it should replace us.