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PSA for artists (lemy.lol)

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[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 47 points 10 months ago

If you replace all your online images then ai can't look at it. No one else can either, but you stop ai I guess.

[-] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 52 points 10 months ago

They're talking about using this: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 23 points 10 months ago

Isn't Nightshade defeated by just applying an anti aliasing filter to the image?

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Yeah, this is some "I don't consent" FB post level of stupid shit. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Even I'd it's not, it's using a pattern to "defeat" something that is mostly pattern recognition.

[-] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Makes sense. There will definitely be an adversarial situation going forward.

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 10 months ago

Ever heard of the red queen hypothesis?

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

Nope

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 10 months ago

"it takes all the running in the world just to stay in place."

Normally refers to biology arms races, where a poisonous animal and a poison resistant predator play tit for tat, making stronger poisons and stronger resistances to try and outplay the other just to stay alive.

Now, artists and AI are doing the same. AI wants to steal art without paying for it, artists dont want their art stolen. Artists come up with little tricks to poison the data set if their art is used, AI comes up with little tricks to strip the poison from the data.

The dance continues, the dancers straining and struggling, all to stand still.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, similar struggle my dad described when negotiating sales of complex systems, both parties start with unrealistic demands, just to have stuff to give away to the other side during negotiations.

He has told me several times that he just wishes that the process was way more streamlined and that the parties could start closer to the realistic goal.

He has since retired, so he no longer needs to deal with it...

[+] littlebluespark@lemmy.world -9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

FFS. People. It's "stealing" as much as visiting a museum and going home to sketch/sculpt/compose is theft.

When did the chicken-little mindset of old fucks become default reaction set for the whole damn world? 🤮

Edit: Ah, yes. More uneducated armchair experts yelling rhetoric. How surprising. Please, tell me you came from Reddit without telling me you're from Reddit. 🤣

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 10 months ago

There he is! The kid who got kicked out of school for plagarism

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

If you read thousands of different sources to learn about something and then write about it yourself, congrats, you've AI plagiarized.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's a little more nuanced as AI models keep spitting out verbatim training data when people figure out the right queries. E.g. the other day they banned you from asking chat GPT to repeat the same word forever as it'd do that for a while, then just spew out something it had been trained on. If someone reads thousands of articles on a subject, then writes the exact contents of one of them, that's definitely plagiarism.

There's also the issue that when a human reads a lot, they have to pay for a lot of books and view a lot of ads and pay taxes that fund a library system buying books, too. The human extracts value from what they've read and gives something to its author. Megacorporations training AI models are only extracting the value and aren't paying for the privilege.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It's not like I said it is because it IS usually like I said it is, except in intentional edge cases. Got it.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I said it was more nuanced than you said, which is pretty different to saying it's not like you said. There are big similarities to a human who's read lots of books, but the equivalent human is pirating all their media while being rich enough to pay for it, and sometimes passing off other people's writing as their own. Neither of those things are allowed when humans do them.

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 10 months ago

Man, thats so far off base youve become the first human on pluto.

You think and reason. A math program running on a big computer doesnt. So, already, you are wrong.

But the theft and plagiarism isnt from the output from the large math program that chatgpts marketing team want you to think is artificial intelligence.

The primary problem is that they never had permissiom to feed other peoples things into their picture calculator in the first place.

It would be like if I illegally printed someone elses artwork on a canvas and used it at my job as an interior decorator to decorate an office. Or if I illegally printed a copy of a board game or card game and used those copies to host a pay-to-enter tournament.

Its a calculator, not a brain, and feeding it materials you do not have the permission to feed into it is theft.

Children understand this. How old are you?

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

There are highly degreed adults working in this field who disagree with you. But good job calling everyone who disagrees with you a child. That's super mature brah. You've claimed the moral high ground.

[-] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Except you don't put in the effort to go yourself and interpret the art or the effort to make it. The human element is completely removed; besides, people should do what they want with their art, including prevent AI from using it to the best of their abilities.

[-] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"AI" image "generation" has been known to spit back out more or less intact copyrighted works, complete with watermark. It doesn't create anything it's just an outright plagiarism machine.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I hope content hosting services start applying it by default.

[-] TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 20 points 10 months ago

I believe this is suggesting an AI poisoning edit, not removing the image entirely. It should be mostly imperceptible. Plus, you could update with newer methods as they come out.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

You could generate a different temporary img url every time and nightshade it after the link expires.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

You could generate a different temporary img url every time and nightshade it after the link expires.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I’m only vaguely familiar with ML datasets and have only trained on local data, but I’ve never heard of this? Can anyone provide some evidence this is the case?

Edit: Looking further I can still only find datasets containing the image files, ex.

https://www.lvisdataset.org/dataset

https://www.v7labs.com/open-datasets

[-] Ymmelbackwards@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

LAION is one of the big dogs (https://laion.ai/). Their datasets consist of urls and metadata.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Ah perfect, thank you so much!

https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset

Seems to be the main tool, I’ll have something new to explore this weekend.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

LAION-5B is notoriously badly labeled that having a few poisoned data, even if it worked as advertised, would literally not matter at all.

Plus, it's not doing anything to existing diffusion models that used LAION-5B, since many artists are under the mistaken impression that the models will constantly scrapes the Internet for new images and train on them automatically, when training a model to learn new information without catastrophic forgetting is almost impossible (hence, workarounds like LoRAs and such).

Again, a reminder that the creator of Nightshade and Glaze, Ben Zhao of UChicago, is literally a code thief who stole GPL code for his closed source product (warning: reddit link) to scam artists who doesn't understand the tech behind ML models.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Tell me you have no idea how it works without telling me.

Edit: sorry that's unclear, I mean the OP on mastodon not you specifically

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

"tell me without telling me" needs to fucking die

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

tell me you care too much without telling me

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

Could also Goatse them

[-] Thann@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

This is the preferred method

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

c/foundsatan

[-] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Fans of the actual content might have some issue with it

[-] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

TIL about Glazing and Nightshade. Thanks!

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

They don't work as advertised.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I'm still confused.

[-] 31337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hmm, looks like it would also mess up classification, recommendation, captioning, etc models using these images. Maybe image and duplicate search as well? Maybe could be used to get around automated copyright strikes?

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