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<blockquote data-quote="Epic Meepo" data-source="post: 9375576" data-attributes="member: 57073">Thanks for posting this. I'd been idly contemplating the idea of something like Nightshade recently, but I hadn't gotten around to doing any research. I didn't know until I read the OP that Nightshade is already a thing. It's interesting to see someone's already exploring this idea.To be honest, though, the team working on Nightshade seems to be underselling the real potential of this software. The stated goal of allowing human artists to data-poison their personal work is intriguing, but this technology would probably be more effective if it was used on a larger scale:Instead of data-poisoning individual human artists' works as they get uploaded to the internet, Nightshade would be more effective if it was used by a bot (a counter-insurgent AI?) that generates and posts data-poisoned images to the internet a million times faster than any human artist could.To put it another way, data-poisoning individual artists' work seems to me like missing the forest for the trees. To make a real impact on the development of AI technology, someone would need to use Nightshade technology to data-poison the internet itself, to the fullest extent possible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Epic Meepo, post: 9375576, member: 57073"] Thanks for posting this. I'd been idly contemplating the idea of something like Nightshade recently, but I hadn't gotten around to doing any research. I didn't know until I read the OP that Nightshade is already a thing. It's interesting to see someone's already exploring this idea. To be honest, though, the team working on Nightshade seems to be underselling the real potential of this software. The stated goal of allowing human artists to data-poison their personal work is intriguing, but this technology would probably be more effective if it was used on a larger scale: Instead of data-poisoning individual human artists' works as they get uploaded to the internet, Nightshade would be more effective if it was used by a bot (a counter-insurgent AI?) that generates and posts data-poisoned images to the internet a million times faster than any human artist could. To put it another way, data-poisoning individual artists' work seems to me like missing the forest for the trees. To make a real impact on the development of AI technology, someone would need to use Nightshade technology to data-poison [I]the internet itself[/I], to the fullest extent possible. [/QUOTE]

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