The Glaze Project: Nightshade and Glaze AI Image Poisoning Software (free)

[Kino]

I have been seeing more and more data scraping on Flicker by Google and other AI bots who use our images to train their AI image software.

This irritates me, not because any substantial value of my photographs, it's just the principal.

There is a group of programmers who are fighting back and making freely available software that will "poison" images when fed into an AI platform and distort the results.

Even if you are not wanting to do this, it makes for an interesting read regardless. I am thinking I may poison all images I upload from now on out, just to make a point.

Have a look: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/aboutus.html

The software download is HUGE, but that's to be expected now days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onGm0Kf7CQA

[Michael R]

I’d prefer a poison that destroys the AI, bots and the people who created them, but I guess this will do.

[Kino]

Ruin their AI data and they will be ruined too...

[ic-racer]

Fascinating software tools.

I'm glad I'm not a digital artist.

If I do post a digital representation of a print, I'm not sure an AI learning bot will learn much about "Untitled #1" or "Untitled #23" from my work.

[Michael R]

Ruin their AI data and they will be ruined too...

Fair point. Hopefully this is something that will grow. I completely agree with you in principle.

[jnantz]

at this point I think it's probably too late.
it's like chasing after a leaf or t-shirt bag in a breeze
impossible to catch. besides im guessing the bot already knows how
to bypass the code ..

[jnantz]

how can one tell if their work is being absorbed by AI ? I've tried a few times to sell all my images to companies that have AI Bots that make photographs, and was told the people who work for the company don't use any one's work but their own .. I do find that hard to believe, I guess like Rick Harrison says: if I can get it cheep enough, there's money to be made ... AI's cheep enough is free and illegal ?

[Kino]

Flickr statistics (pro) show the search source of each visit to an image in your account. When large blocks of views from google.com start showing-up, you can be pretty sure it's someone/thing scraping the photos.

Yeah, they act all coy, but you know their "staff" doesn't generate any where near the amount of images required to train a comprehensive AI system. Baloney!

[joho]

Kino, great that you picked up on this subject.

This is not new! attribution theory of theft , IS not new at all.
Digi-thefi [digital theft] is a new way to get ripped off!!!
just show your work on the @net. and poof it is theirs ... they will steal from your photo-images a face from here a cloud from there, show your art they will take it !!

I have had it happen to me, with my work a few times.
We most understand with what creative people are against and fight against this form of a new crime.