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Nightshade: poisoning AI image models

Seamus Byrne
Seamus Byrne

Meet Nightshade. A tool for collective, offensive artist action against image scraping for AI. Nightshade adds a human-eye invisible interference pattern to images that will accumulate to increase the cost of training on unlicensed data".

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Founder and Head of Content at Byteside. Brings two decades of experience covering tech, digital culture, and their impacts on society.


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