Comment by efitz

3 years ago

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.