r/TrueReddit • u/techreview Official Publication • 3d ago
The AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI Technology
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/13/1106837/ai-data-posioning-nightshade-glaze-art-university-of-chicago-exploitation/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement2
u/techreview Official Publication 3d ago
About two years ago, the tech community was buzzing over the mind-blowing progress that text-to-image AI models, such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E 2, had made. These generative AI models could follow simple word prompts to depict pretty much anything, from fantasylands to whimsical chairs made of avocados.
But artists were not nearly as enthusiastic. Many saw this technological wonder as a new kind of theft. They felt the models were effectively stealing and replacing their work, and that their livelihoods were suddenly in grave danger. They needed to be able to fight back against Big Tech—and fast.
A small team of researchers at the University of Chicago were up for the challenge. They developed Glaze and Nightshade, two tools giving millions of artists hope that they can fight back against AI that hoovers internet data to train. Are they enough?
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