War Against The Machines: Art

Glaze protects art from prying AIs
An academic research project has launched a free ‘cloaking’ tool for visual artists to protect online artworks against style-ripping generative AI models.
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The asymmetry in time and effort it takes human artists to produce original art vs the speed generative AI models can now get the task done is one of the reasons why Glaze, an academic research project out of the University of Chicago, looks so interesting. It’s just launched a free (non-commercial) app for artists (download link here) to combat the theft of their ‘artistic IP’ — scraped into data-sets to train AI tools designed to mimic visual style — via the application of a high tech “cloaking” technique.

The paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04222.pdf