With the latest generation of AI art generators riding roughshod over intellectual property rights, it was about time that someone created a tool that can protect artists’ work. Sure enough, researchers have now developed a program that aims to prevent artists’ styles from being copied.
Glaze can protect images from AI art generators by applying subtle modifications. These are almost unnoticeable to the human eye but they confuse AI models and stop them from replicating the style… at least for now (see how to use DALL-E 2 if you’re not up to speed on how text-to-image AI image generation works).
Many people involved in visual arts are concerned about the rise of AI image generators. Tools like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion allow anyone to generate an image from a simple text prompt. But they’re only able to do that because they’ve been fed millions of existing photographs and artworks scraped from the web. If you’re an artist and you have images online, chances…
