New ‘poisoning’ tool spells trouble for AI text-to-image tech
Professional artists and photographers annoyed at generative AI firms using their work to train their technology may soon have an effective way to respond that doesn’t involve going to the courts. Generative AI burst onto the scene with the launch ofOpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbotalmost a year ago. The tool is extremely adept at conversing in a very natural, human-like way, but to gain that ability it had to be trained on masses of data scraped from the web....