Glaze, the app that protects artists from artificial intelligence

A research group from the University of Chicago has created Glaze, a solution that seeks to protect the works made by real artists and prevent them from ending up training models of Artificial intelligence (AI).

The AI ​​is capable of creating high-quality digital images through platforms such as DALL-E, developed by OpenAI, or Stable Difussion by Stability AI. These programs use automatic learning models (‘machine learning’) and are trained using databases of images and illustrations in many cases with artist credits.

Due to this possibility of use, authors and creators of artistic works have shown their concern that technology is capable of dehumanizing art; a problem in which the copyrights generated with these works are also involved.

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In this scenario, researchers from the SAND Lab group at the University of Chicago have created the Glaze tool, created so that artists can protect their works and their personal style when they publish their art online, in order to prevent AI from copying and being able to learn your technique.

As they explain on their website, Glaze adds changes “very small” to the original artwork before posting it online. These changes are almost imperceptible to the human eye, so they hardly alter the original artwork. However, they modify the works enough that the AI ​​models are incapable of copying.”car stylingr”.

In this way, these alterations of the work are added to the drawing or painting as if it were a new layer of style, and “andSoftware cloaks images so models incorrectly learn the unique characteristics that define an artist’s style, thwarting later efforts to generate artificial plagiarism”.

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Since the AI ​​interprets the work in a different style from the original, it is unable to create images that reproduce an identical style to these artists, which will protect them from copies or reproductions made without their consent.

To verify their results, the developers, led by Neubauer computer science professors Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng, have carried out a series of tests and studies involving more than 1,000 professional artists.

Despite the progress that the appearance of a tool like Glaze represents, the creators emphasize that it is a project that “they are still investigating” and that they will continue to update their tools to “improve its robustness against new advances in AI art models”.

Source: Elcomercio

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