Nightshade Anti-Scraping Tool a Big Hit With Artists
The University of Chicago’s Nightshade anti-scraping tool received a quarter of a million downloads in just five days. The tool alters images to fool genAI about their content, leading to “poisoning” the model which will begin to offer irrelevant responses to prompts. It sits alongside Kin.art in the battery of weapons artists can use to defend their intellectual property.