Researchers have developed a technique aimed at protecting artists from AI models replicating their styles after having been trained to generate images from their artwork.

Commercial text-to-image tools that automatically produce images given a text description like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, or Midjourney have ignited a fierce copyright debate. Some artists were dismayed to find out how shockingly easy it was for anyone to create new digital artworks mimicking their style.

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University of Chicago researchers have developed software named "Glaze" that protects images for internet use before uploading to the web. This is not specifically future proof as the ai folks will probably circumvent it, but will slow down rips and theft by image ai surfing the web. Interesting concept. The only thing that will actually work is if copyright authorities worldwide recognize the dangers of text-to-image ai technology on the rights of creators.