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he AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI: The tools Glaze and Nightshade are giving artists hope that they can fight back against AI that hoovers internet data to train. Are they enough? (www.technologyreview.com)
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[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

Minor notes after researching the tools some more:

  • Neither tool is free as in freedom. They're proprietary and the limited source code they released is different from the binaries they provide.
  • They have not released a Linux version and any port is impossible due to the proprietary nature.
  • They only support Nvidia GPUs.
  • The WebGlaze tool is invitation only. This isn't in and itself a bad thing, except you can only request an invitation via Instagram or Twitter.
  • One or both of the projects have violated the GPL at one point early on.

I'm not an artist but nearly all of the aforementioned points lead me to have a resoundingly negative view of the project. Maybe I'm cynical but it seems they intend to make the tool subscription-based in the future after gaining enough market share.