{"id":256304,"date":"2023-10-24T07:07:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T11:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=311655"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:52:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:52:57","slug":"this-tool-could-save-artists-from-ai-poisoning-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-tool-could-save-artists-from-ai-poisoning-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"This tool could save artists from AI: poisoning artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have talked a lot about <strong>how AI is grabbing art from all over the internet to create its own creations<\/strong>. Obviously, these are not original, just a mishmash of existing images. This drives millions of artists crazy, who could now take revenge in the best way possible.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"DALL-E\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/8b87c4ac-968b-4c2e-8542-70132c8fdb65\/312528810\/dall-e-DALL%C2%B7E-icn.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">DALL-E<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dall-e.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dall-e.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artists could soon have a new weapon <strong>to prevent their works from becoming cannon fodder for machine learning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The tool, called Nightshade, introduces small changes<\/strong> to the pixels of a digital artwork to &#8220;poison&#8221; it and make it useless for AI training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Artists, best tool we could have asked for to fight this unprecedented exploitation of our labor is here! <br><br>Coming from the creators of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGlazeProject?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheGlazeProject<\/a>, Nightshade lets us poison datasets, damage models and teach AI companies to ask for permission first.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WurjNDpvsl\">https:\/\/t.co\/WurjNDpvsl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iEP3TJBhVh\">pic.twitter.com\/iEP3TJBhVh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Katria (@katriaraden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katriaraden\/status\/1716521877240168704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is how a tool that could change the current paradigm works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2023\/10\/23\/1082189\/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">MIT Technology Review<\/a> reports that a team led by Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, presented Nightshade for review at the USENIX computer security conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program works by making small modifications to an image that, although invisible to the human eye, <strong>cause AI algorithms to identify them completely incorrectly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, an artist can paint a picture of a cat that any human or AI examining it can clearly identify as a feline. However, by applying Nightshade, <strong>humans will still see the same image while the AI will mistakenly believe it is a dog<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/Nightshade-para-envenenar-la-IA-1024x516-1-1024x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-256312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/Nightshade-para-envenenar-la-IA-1024x516-1-1024x516.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/Nightshade-para-envenenar-la-IA-1024x516-1-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/Nightshade-para-envenenar-la-IA-1024x516-1-768x387.jpg 768w, 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