I wanted to share with HPR peeps four ways to hack our
robot/corporate overlords:
- Fawkes - named for Guy Fawkes, the face mask of anonymous
and hackers around the world - Glaze - a digital paint curing process to protect your
art - Nightshade, a software blue pill you can hide in your
digital creations so that any AI consuming your work without your
permission will also consume your blue pill and be sucked into a world
of endless hallucinations - Agalmic organizations, the future of AI business, invented
by Charles Stross in his second most famous SciFi novel
Accelerando, written in 2005 but set in the years 2025-2040
during what he called the singularity and others now call the #pancrisis
or post-truth era or 21 Lessons of the 21st Century
Those first three applications were invented by Ben Zhao a Neubauer
professor at the University of Chicago
Here are links to more resources about each one:
- Fawkes sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/
to cloak your selfies, can it be made to work on video? github.com/Shawn-Shan/fawkes - Glaze glaze-usenix23.pdf
to make it difficult to do style transfer on your images. All your art
will look like pollucks If someone asked models to imitate your store.
Anime and graphic novels are hard. - NightShade arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13828.pdf
only needs to poison pill 50 of your images so they will destroy the
feature space of any AI model that tries to learn your style from them,
they cause models trained on them to hallucinate. Fill in the vacuum of
the Swiss cheese holes of your feature space (embedding vectors). There
is someone developing an antidote: github.com/RichardAragon/NightshadeAntidote - Your local used book store is the best place to find copies of
Accelerando or the Lobsters short story released in several periodicals
and SciFi compendiums over the years.