How artists can protect their work from AI

[battlewraith]

This is a Ted talk from Dr. Heather Zheng, one of the researchers behind the development of Glaze and Nightshade, free applications that have been developed to thwart AI scraping on people's creative work. This is a good discussion of problems posed by generative AI and the limited options artists have in the face of large corporations assimilating their creative expression.

 

 

[biostem]

If you've shared it online, it's probably already been scraped.  The hard part will be successfully litigating such an instance of an AI copying one's style or work...

[battlewraith]

1 hour ago, biostem said:

If you've shared it online, it's probably already been scraped.  The hard part will be successfully litigating such an instance of an AI copying one's style or work...

 

AI image generation is a lot like money laundering. It is, by design, very difficult to seek damages for your work being used in this way.

 

In the video she's talking about artists, as a standard practice, using software to code their digital work in a way that actually derails the scraping. This obviously doesn't help work that has already been scraped, but it protects new work from being assimilated. This addresses the risk artists now face simply for posting things in online galleries.