Here we go: Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, led a team to create NightShade, a tool that lets artists alter pixels in their images so that if/when ingested to an AI training set, will cause the resulting model to "break."
From MIT Tech Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai
This is very much like the antibiotic / antibiotic resistance battle that humans have with bacteria.
- Growth of bacterial infections and deadly infectious diseases
- Here’s a new antibiotic developed by humans
- Successful treatment of bacterial infections
- Bacteria develop resistance to that antibiotic
- New bacterial infections by resistant bacteria
- New antibiotic developed by humans
- etc
I will be very interested to see where this journey leads.
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