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📈Artist fight AI back with poison

Much like dodos strolling the sunlit beaches in the 1600s, artist were oblivious to the dangers that lay ahead when the sails of AI advancement appeared on last year's horizon. However, unlike the extinct dodo, artists are adapting to face the threat. Their newest weapon? Poison.

Enter Nightshade: a revolutionary tool allowing artists to subtly alter their artworks. Invisible to the naked eye, it wreaks havoc when an AI is trained on it. A touch of this "poison", and suddenly AI might mistake a dog for a cat, or a car for a cow.

Major players like OpenAI, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion have indiscriminately harvested web content, often overlooking artists' rights, to train their AI models. But with Nightshade in play, this practice just became much more risky. A mere 50 tampered dog images skewed Stable Diffusion's model, producing odd dog representations, and 300 such images rendered the model useless.

And Nightshade doesn't just affect a specific term: if "fantasy art" is disrupted, so are related terms like "dragon".

This is a potential power shift from tech behemoths back to the art community. The developers of Nightshade are eager to open-source it, bolstering its potency. In simple terms, the more "poisoned" images AI systems inhale, the more chaos ensues.

Detecting these tampered images in the vast libraries containing billions of training photos is like finding a needle in a haystack. So getting rid of them, might cost AI companies huge sums of money.

However, this tool is a double-edged sword. Nightshade, if swiped by the mischief-makers, could become AI's worst nightmare. It's like giving pranksters a can of spray paint near a blank wall. It presents a fresh avenue for attacks, and creates a pressing need for defense against such attacks.

The big hope? Nightshade may push AI corporations to truly value and perhaps even compensate artists. Many in the art world view Nightshade as a glimmer of hope. The underlying message is clear: with their foundational operations at risk, AI companies might finally exercise caution, respecting artistic consent.

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