The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. Is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission.
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The researchers tested the attack on Stable Diffusion’s latest models and on an AI model they trained themselves from scratch. When they fed Stable Diffusion just 50 poisoned images of dogs and then prompted it to create images of dogs itself, the output started looking weird—creatures with too many limbs and cartoonish faces. With 300 poisoned samples, an attacker can manipulate Stable Diffusion to generate images of dogs to look like cats.
Pretty much
Its on the same path as GAN but there is no adversarial network feedback - Nothing telling the generative ai it is generating bad data
Seems like GAN without the benefits for training models (which is what they wanted it seems. To mess with the training data)
I dont see how this becomes permanent since the models are already trained. Maybe if the technique becomes easy for artists to apply to their digital works and makes it into the training data for the next models