A few years ago, when artificial intelligence technologies were just beginning to be actively used in various fields, artists confidently declared that they had nothing to be afraid of – a computer would never be able to draw like a person. However, already at the end of 2022, it turned out that AI can not only move heavy pallets in warehouses, drive cars and answer questions, but also draw quite decently no worse than professional artists. Moreover, modern technologies make it possible to study the style of a particular artist and copy it so accurately that even specialists can hardly distinguish the original from the “fake”.
Artists have begun to complain quite actively about the MidJourney and Stable Diffusion models, which in the near future will be able to force out specialists in this field and completely replace them in the digital field. After all, images generated by artificial intelligence are already winning art competitions, they are used for book covers and theater posters. Accordingly, the experts decided to counter this phenomenon by creating an advanced Glaze tool that allows artists who draw digital content to protect themselves from imitation by artificial intelligence.
This tool allows artists to apply style filters to their work before they are published online. These filters, according to the developers, make subtle distortions in the picture in the image, which can confuse artificial intelligence-based technologies. Due to these distortions, the corresponding models will not be able to imitate the style of a particular artist, because computer vision will not be able to “catch” on the details in the image on the network. At the same time, these distortions will remain invisible to the user, so the use of Glaze will not affect the quality of the final content.
In order to implement this tool, experts have enlisted the help of thousands of artists who express concern about the popularization of artificial intelligence in the field of creativity. Experts conducted a series of trials and tests, proving that the Glaze tool can really save the artist’s work from being imitated by popular models based on artificial intelligence. However, no one can guarantee that AI will not learn to get around this problem in the future – the technology is constantly improving and, probably, computer vision will soon be able to adapt to minor distortions, so calling it a panacea can only be a stretch.
Source: Trash Box
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