Protect your Art from AI

AI seems to be everywhere, and is advancing at breakneck speeds. But humans aren't sitting idly by and a few tools have been created to help artists protect their own artwork from being used to fuel the AI machine

[UberPanzerhund]

I choked on my drink when I saw the "restoration" of that old photo, was not expecting that

[Pilow]

This feels like a modern-age water mark

[Btomaek]

i hate ai because a lot of people don't use it as a tool but to replace art effort

[TrappedinaBrain]

I feel bad for Greg Rutkowski. He's the most AI-emulated living artist. His original work is now vastly outnumbered by AI ones, and some searches almost exclusively give AI results when you look him up

[generalfishcake]

I work in a large game studio, and my boss trained a model using my colleague's artwork, then named the model after himself, since the art was supposedly made on company time. (He actually used his personal Artstation works, as well. He then fired anyone who was openly against AI (3 artists in total). Suffice to say, the results were bad, and the parent company fired that boss for unrelated reasons. But creativity hasn't recovered.

[-RedGlider-]

"I don't need to explain why this will happen; you know I am right." Pure poetry and simply true.

[boucelt]

Watching AI artbros moaning about how glazing and nightshading is "dRiNKinG pOiSon hOpiNg tO hUrT oTheRs" is priceless. Oh, and they are starting to demand their prompts be protected by copyright laws too, the audacity of those parasites is just stunning to watch.

[StudioKelpie]

I'm currently pushing my art skills to the next level and I don't think AI will ever match the sheer joy of making art and then continuing to improve

[stephaneduhamel]

About nightshade, the results have yet to be reproduced. People trained models using poisoned artworks and didn't notice any significant effects. So there's that...

[bttlemastr]

I don't like the idea of having to make all images of art lower quality. And AI is definitely gonna just learn and adjust to this

[HappyBabushka]

Sadly i think the battle is already lost
How many millions of old images are there on the internet from inactive or unaware artists. While it will be harder for a ai to learn new styles in the future, the classical realistic styles of 1 million google results of dogs before 2020 remain.

[OriginalityDaniel]

Midjourney devs got caught discussing laundering and creating a database of artists to train off of which is now evidence in a current lawsuit, i dunno why anyone thinks it's fine to use copyrighted work without permission in commercial products? it's not like copyright law doesn't apply to these companies because of new software?

[Splarkszter]

It is true that AI isn't intelligent.

It isn't creative, it's still a deterministic program, it can't be spontaneous, it can't create new things. AI is a heavy deceptive marketing tool, AI can be very useful, but current it will not be as good as humans, it will never be as long as it keeps being deterministic.

AI IS DETERMINISTIC.

We MUST protect people that actually create new things.

[AxWarhawk]

The issue I see with this approach is that a painting, once poisoned and published cannot be "updated", where classifiers and models are getting better over time. Training data may be corrupted now because of these images, but I suspect technology will advance fast enough to be immune to this in no time.

[swidd]

My machine learning class taught us that in a generative adversarial network(GAN), any method of detecting an ai model can be used to train the same ai model in theory. GANs can also be used to avoid poisoning and can lead to an arms race of using the glaze itself to train the ai model, and glaze learning to become better at poisoning. This is really only a temporary solution until the training model catches up using this technique.

[skootergirl]

I used AI a couple of times just for references, I'm an artist who free draws both digital and traditional. I've noticed when I was generating poses, one was literally a drawing of a girl lying down or doing yoga. But her head was turned in an uncomfortable way, which was possibly the AI's doing. You can still see the signature of the artist

[Micha-Hil]

AI generations and true art is starting to turn into the -Hacker- Cheater (sorry) vs Developer war. A developer blocks a way to cheat, a hacker finds a workaround, rinse and repeat.

[hiho]

I imagine someone will just train a denoiser for images generated with nightshade and glaze to get around this.

[crazyvideogames_]

I'm just a hobbyist and not a professional artist so this doesn't affect me any really but I can emphasise with people who do make a living from their art. I think AI art is fun to mess around with, or possibly as a tool for reference, but I do hate seeing AI art flood art sites. I want to see something actually drawn by a human. Even with some art sites having settings to supress AI art not everyone properly tags their art as AI. Not to mention people selling AI art or running patreons with their AI art etc. Most of the ones I've seen are just low effort and the basic stuff you get from typing prompts. I know cause that's the sort of stuff I got quickly messing around with some AI image generators. You can pretty much tell AI art instantly depending on the style. Anime art in particular seems to have a distinct AI style.

[theresalwaysanotherway]

it's a nice thought, and I understand why artists are excited by these efforts, but the fact is
1) no one has been able to reproduce this poisoning effect yet, who knows if it even works on say, SDXL-turbo, or an already finetuned model.
2) it would be trivial to download 10, 000 images from laion, run the poisoning on them, and train a model to convert poisened to non-poisened images. Then in training, you simply add a new step to "de-poison" the image.
Bypassing this isn't a matter of if it can be done, or even when it'll be done, but if anyone bothers in the first place.