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.

[TheMoneyMaker]

Just you watch, there will be new ways created to scrape devised to get around the safeguards. It'll be a constant back and forth battle.

[battlewraith]

10 hours ago, TheMoneyMaker said:

Just you watch, there will be new ways created to scrape devised to get around the safeguards. It'll be a constant back and forth battle.

 

Yeah sure. If there's a buck to be made, people will attempt to find a workaround. Just because there are laws, policing, etc. doesn't mean that there is no crime. 

 

This is just a piece of the puzzle. It's offering some protection to artists (for free) to make them less threatened just for sharing their work online. 

Communities are coming together to support artists and I think sentiment against AI slop is growing.

[Masheenz]

Other than printing 2D and 3D tech limits digital art can't really be considered actual art until a human has commanded it to create. To me that means the artist maintains creative ownership of the created art. I like doing AI enhanced screenshots.

[battlewraith]

2 hours ago, Masheenz said:

Other than printing 2D and 3D tech limits digital art can't really be considered actual art until a human has commanded it to create. To me that means the artist maintains creative ownership of the created art.

 

I don't know what you mean by this. Digital drawing, painting, sculpting etc. is generally done via some input device like a wacom tablet. You do not command something like Photoshop or procreate to create for you, unless there is some AI process involved. Works created by hand are your copyrighted creations, unless you did them as part of employment. Whether or not they are printed doesn't matter. Works created by AI are not subject to copyright as they are not considered to have a human author. 

[ShardWarrior]

21 hours ago, TheMoneyMaker said:

Just you watch, there will be new ways created to scrape devised to get around the safeguards. It'll be a constant back and forth battle.

 

No doubt.  This is the nature of software, for better or worse.  I would not at all be surprised if there were already ways to circumvent this program.