cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7258145
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.
There's also the assymetric failure modes. If nightshade fails, well, we just end up with the current status quo. LLMs get trained on people's art. But if the tactics to prevent it fail, a very expensive LLM gets poisoned in some specific way. So it's much more important for the LLM trainers to always succeed than it is for the people developing nightshade variants.