Shortly after its January release, the AI copyright infringement tool Nightshade exceeded the expectations of its developers at the University of Chicago’s computer science department, with 250,000 downloads. With Nightshade, artists can avert AI models from using their artwork for training purposes without acquiring permission.
The Bureau of Labour Statistics reports that more than 2.67 million artists work in the United States, but social media response indicates that downloads have taken place across the globe. According to one of the coders, cloud mirror links were established in order to prevent overloading the University of Chicago’s web servers.
The project’s leader, Ben Zhao, a computer science professor at the University of Chicago, told VentureBeat that “the response is simply beyond anything we imagined.”
“Nightshade seeks to ‘poison’ generative AI image models by altering artworks posted to the web, or ‘shading’ them on a pixel level, so that they appear to a machine learning algorithm to contain entirely different content — a purse instead of a cow,” the researchers explained. After training on multip
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