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Artists Use Tech Weapons to Counter AI Copycats
Paloma McClain and other artists aim to protect their original work, like her illustration shown here, from AI scraping.
Credit: Paloma McClain
Artists under siege from artificial intelligence that studies their work, then replicates their styles, have teamed up with university researchers to stymie such copycat activity.
Paloma McClain, an illustrator in the United States, went into defense mode after learning that several AI models had been "trained" using her art, with no credit or compensation sent her way. She turned to free software called "Glaze," created by researchers at the University of Chicago.
Glaze essentially outthinks AI models when it comes to how they train, tweaking pixels in ways indiscernible by human viewers but which make a digitized piece of art appear dramatically different to AI.
"We're basically providing technical tools to help protect human creators against invasive and abusive AI models," says professor of computer science Ben Zhao of the Glaze team. "The goal is for people to be able to protect their content, whether it's individual artists or companies with a lot of intellectual property."
From Agence France-Presse
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