New Data ‘Poisoning’ Tool Enables Artists To Fight Back Against Image Generating AI

Artists now have a new digital tool they can use in the event their work is scraped without permission by an AI training set. The tool, called Nightshade, enables artists to add invisible pixels to their art prior to being uploaded online. These data samples “poison” the massive image sets used to train AI image-generators such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, destabilizing their outputs in chaotic and unexpected ways as well as disabling “its ability to generate us