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Artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Exactly. Like, how hard would it be to reverse engineer the poison and create a reversal tool that applies the exact opposite modifications. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if it could be defeated by something as simple as a little image compression or noise.