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 ...

Nightshade capitalizes on the fact that AI models don’t “see” the way people do, research lead Shawn Shan said. “Machines, they only see a big array of numbers, right? These are pixel ...