Pastel (@pastelhippy.bsky.social)

Today I learned about a program called nightshade, which makes it harder for AI models to train using your artwork. It’s free for anyone to use nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

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Nightshade: Protecting Copyright Since their arrival, generative AI models and their trainers have demonstrated their ability to download any online content for model training. For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative AI model against their will. Opt-out lists have been disregarded by model trainers in the past, and can be easily ignored with zero consequences. They are unverifiable and unenforceable, and those who violate opt-out lists and do-not-scrape directives can not be identified with high confidence. https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html