Nightshade: Poison AI Art to Thwart Scrapers 🎨

Nightshade is a new anti-AI tool that allows artists to inject “poison” into their digital images to really mess with image scraping software.

Essentially, it changes very small pieces of data in the image itself, without making it look different to the human eye, which allows it to fool the machines scraping into thinking it’s something else. If enough of these images get swept up into the training data, it will produce the wrong sorts of images.

It will be interesting to see if it’s possible to do this at scale and certainly there will be counter measures, but it’s an interesting way for artists to fight back against AI art data scraping.