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

submitted 1 year ago by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

UBI is the known solution to protect workers. Solution is there, people aren't ready for it

[–] vidarh@lemmy.stad.social 1 points 1 year ago

As long as people aren't ready for it, then it doesn't solve the immediate problem that needs to be solved today.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol.

How does UBI break trademark and copyright law (and therefore legal cases)?

Do you really think the current power brokers will suddenly sit in their hands and stop trying to (mostly successfully) control as much as they can?

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

UBI is needed because most of the jobs people are currently doing are already not needed. They are needed just to redistribute wealth, but most of the jobs are currently already useless (if you work in corporate, public sector or retail you know what I am talking about). In the future more will become useless. Current copyright laws are already outdated and don't work anymore. Only safe solution for people who want to dedicate their lives to visual art is UBI. Because of the known reasons. Most "artists" are not really doing art, simply a job for entertainment industry that in the future will be done by much fewer people due to technological and organizational changes. As it is already happening now, even before AI.

UBI is a solution for similar situations, that will be even more common in future. We need better solutions to redistribute wealth, from what you call "power brokers" to larger society