It was always going to be a cat and mouse game because “AI” companies have decided to abandon ethics completely since there are few consequences when you they are just a shell company and the parent company keeps all of the resulting training data and money, so the company that does the training going bankrupt and abandoning responsibility is no issue. Sad that court system is so non-technical that they don’t see the training data produced by copyrighted material to be a copy of the material even if they were to decide that accessing the material was a violation.
Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show
Submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.cafe to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/defenses_against_ai_scrapers_beaten/
Feyd@programming.dev 2 days ago
Of course it can be beaten. All that happened is these university employees did big tech’s work for them and they’re try to spin it like they’re on artist’s side anyway
Hazzard@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Eh, it’s a fair point. Not trying something like this is essentially “security by obscurity”, which has been repeatedly proven to be a mistake.
Wouldn’t surprise me if OpenAI or someone else already had something like this behind closed doors, but now the developers of tools like Nightshade can begin to work on developing AI poison that’s more resilient against these kinds of “cleanup” tools.
Feyd@programming.dev 1 day ago
This will be a never ending arms race. There isn’t going to be a permanent obstacle, so all this did was help the bad guys move to the next stage.