Comment by freeAgent
3 years ago
It doesn’t enforce any rights. It modifies the actual image. Humans and computers still have equal, open access to it.
3 years ago
It doesn’t enforce any rights. It modifies the actual image. Humans and computers still have equal, open access to it.
It’s designed to restrict the purposes for which the consumer can use the work. It is exactly like DRM in this way.
To be clear, you can still train AI with these images. Nothing is stopping you.
To quote the source:
>Nightshade's goal is not to break models, but to increase the cost of training on unlicensed data, such that licensing images from their creators becomes a viable alternative.
Which feels similar to DRM. To discourage extraction of assets.
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How does it stop you from using an image however you want?
That's true of almost all DRM, isn't it? Even for the most annoying form that is always-online DRM, everyone is provided the same access to the bytes that form a game. You and I have the same bytes of game.
It's the purpose of some of those bytes that turns it into DRM.
No, it's not the same. The game is non-functional without the proper keys/authorization whereas images run through this algorithm are still images that anyone and any computer can view in the same manner without any authentication.
An analogy that springs to mind is the difference between an access control mechanism such as a door with lock and key versus whatever magical contrivance that prevents entry to a dwelling by vampires uninvited.
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