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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI | MIT Technology Review

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The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI

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