The Nightshade project team includes Ben Zhao, Shawn, Josephine Passananti, Heather Zheng, artist community collaborators.
A glazed charcoal drawing is actually an oil painting to AI models.
Photo of a cat is actually a photo of a dog with a different kind of shading.
I developed Nightshade as part of the Glaze Project to demonstrate that AI models can be misled without changing human perception, pressuring companies like OpenAI and Stability AI to obtain consent, compensation, and credit from artists.
Artists have been seeking consent, credit and compensation for about 18 months into the ChatGPT launch.
Sam Altman said that they are talking to content owners and artists about bringing an economics model such that they can get benefit of the upsides.
I learned that a dataset called “YouTube Subtitles” was built by scraping subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos across more than 48,000 channels, mostly from educational sources like Khan Academy, MIT, and Harvard.
The dataset contains subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos.
The videos came from more than 48,000 channels.
Anthropic used the dataset for AI training.
“It’s theft,” said Dave Wiskus, the CEO of Nebula, a streaming service partially owned by its creators, after discovering their content had been taken from YouTube to train AI.

