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On AI 'poisoning'.
10 months ago
Please do not use Glaze to 'protect' your art from AI training use. For two reasons.
1) It looks like shit.
2) It doesn't actually work.
To be clear, Glaze can work against older models of generative AI training but isn't effective against newer ones. And most of the AI trainers are no longer using data scraped from public internet anyway, they're paying for known-clean data sets.
Nightshade can work, but you have to be able to generate huge numbers of images to seed into the data set. So if you're Warner Brothers trying to poison Bugs Bunny out of an AI's tool set, that's do-able, but if you're an artist who only has a couple hundred images total?
Nightshade also provides no protection against targeted LORAs; if someone wants to train a model specifically on your stuff, and I've seen that done if an artist is popular enough, neither Glaze nor Nightshade will prevent it.
So please don't make your art look like poo to actual humans.
1) It looks like shit.
2) It doesn't actually work.
To be clear, Glaze can work against older models of generative AI training but isn't effective against newer ones. And most of the AI trainers are no longer using data scraped from public internet anyway, they're paying for known-clean data sets.
Nightshade can work, but you have to be able to generate huge numbers of images to seed into the data set. So if you're Warner Brothers trying to poison Bugs Bunny out of an AI's tool set, that's do-able, but if you're an artist who only has a couple hundred images total?
Nightshade also provides no protection against targeted LORAs; if someone wants to train a model specifically on your stuff, and I've seen that done if an artist is popular enough, neither Glaze nor Nightshade will prevent it.
So please don't make your art look like poo to actual humans.
luisedgarf
~luisedgarf
There's also the "analog hole" to consider. If someone wanted to train an AI model using your drawing style, even if your art was protected by Glaze or Nightshade, they could bypass these protections by simply taking a photo of your artwork with a cell phone or any camera, or by printing your drawings and then scanning them back into digital form, thus eliminating the effects of the poisoning.
