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Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use (venturebeat.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's not FOSS and I don't see a way to review if what they claim is actually true.

It may be a way to just help to diferentiate legitimate human made work vs machine-generated ones, thus helping AI training models.

Can't demostrate that fact neither, because of its license that expressly forbids sofware adaptions to other uses.

Edit, alter, modify, adapt, translate or otherwise change the whole or any part of the Software nor permit the whole or any part of the Software to be combined with or become incorporated in any other software, nor decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Software or attempt to do any such things

sauce: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The EULA also prohibits using Nightshade "for any commercial purpose", so arguably if you make money from your art—in any way—you're not allowed to use Nightshade to "poison" it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This is the part most people will ignore but I get that's it's mainly meant for big actors.

[–] JATtho 14 points 10 months ago

I read the article enough to find that the Nightshade tool is under EULA... :(

Because it definitely is not FOSS, use it with caution, preferably on a system not connected to internet.