Artists can now poison their images to deter misuse by AI

- The University of Chicago has developed a tool called Nightshade 1.0, which poisons image files to deter AI models from using data without permission.

- Nightshade is a prompt-specific poisoning attack that blurs the boundaries of concepts in images, making text-to-image models less useful.

- The tool aims to protect content creators' intellectual property and ensure that models only train on freely offered data.

- Artists can use Nightshade to prevent the capture and reproduction of their visual styles, …

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