The tool manipulates an image at the pixel level ... so it misleads AI art generators that try to mimic an artist and their work. Zhao told MIT Technology Review that Nightshade is going to ...

Nightshade functions by “shading” images at the pixel level to make them appear ... which seeks to cause A.I. models to misidentify an art style and replicate it incorrectly.

A new tool called Nightshade allows users to attach it to their creative work, and it will corrupt — or poison — training data using that art. Eventually, it can ruin future models of AI art ...

On a much grander scale, she and Zhao tell me they hope that Glaze and Nightshade will eventually have the power to overhaul how AI companies use art and how their products produce it. It is eye ...