{"id":175721,"date":"2023-11-09T22:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T04:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-tool-lets-artists-poison-their-work-to-mess-up-ai-trained-on-it"},"modified":"2023-11-09T22:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T04:22:26","slug":"new-tool-lets-artists-poison-their-work-to-mess-up-ai-trained-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-tool-lets-artists-poison-their-work-to-mess-up-ai-trained-on-it","title":{"rendered":"New Tool Lets Artists \u201cPoison\u201d Their Work to Mess Up AI Trained on It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-tool-lets-artists-poison-their-work-to-mess-up-ai-trained-on-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In particular, many have griped over their original work being used to train these AI models \u2014 a use they never opted into, and for which they\u2019re not compensated.<\/p>\n<p>But what if artists could \u201cpoison\u201d their work with a tool that alters it so subtly that the human eye can\u2019t tell, while wreaking havoc on AI systems that try to digest it?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the idea behind a new tool called \u201cNightshade,\u201d which its creators say does exactly that. As laid out in a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2310.13828\" class=\"\">yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper<\/a> spotted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2023\/10\/23\/1082189\/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai\/\" class=\"\">by <em>MIT Technology Review<\/em><\/a>, a team of researchers led by University of Chicago professor Ben Zhao built the system to generate prompt-specific \u201cpoison samples\u201d that scramble the digital brains of image generators like Stable Diffusion, screwing up their outputs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In particular, many have griped over their original work being used to train these AI models \u2014 a use they never opted into, and for which they\u2019re not compensated. But what if artists could \u201cpoison\u201d their work with a tool that alters it so subtly that the human eye can\u2019t tell, while wreaking havoc on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}