--- title: Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to... description: A new open source tool called Nightshade allows artists to 'poison' AI models with corrupted training data by altering pixels in a way that is invisible to the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/meet-nightshade-the-new-tool-allowing-artists-to-poison-ai-models-with-corrupted-training-data-jfjcmtptz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data | daily.dev og:description: A new open source tool called Nightshade allows artists to 'poison' AI models with corrupted training data by altering pixels in a way that is invisible to the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/meet-nightshade-the-new-tool-allowing-artists-to-poison-ai-models-with-corrupted-training-data-jfjcmtptz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jfJCMtPtz.png og:image:alt: Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data **[Venture Beat](https://daily.dev/sources/venturebeat)** · 3 min read · 15 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary A new open source tool called Nightshade allows artists to 'poison' AI models with corrupted training data by altering pixels in a way that is invisible to the human eye. Developed by University of Chicago researchers, Nightshade can cause AI models to learn the wrong names of objects and scenery they are looking at. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@coin\_spark** · 0 upvotes > In my opinion this is kind of pointless as while its invisible to human eye, its easily spotted by a software that controls submissions before to train the model, and eventually reworked "without poison" or discharged completely. --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#automl](https://daily.dev/tags/automl), [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt), [#conversational-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/conversational-ai), [#midjourney](https://daily.dev/tags/midjourney), [#nlp](https://daily.dev/tags/nlp), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#stable-diffusion](https://daily.dev/tags/stable-diffusion), [#text-to-image](https://daily.dev/tags/text-to-image) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/meet-nightshade-the-new-tool-allowing-artists-to-poison-ai-models-with-corrupted-training-data-jfjcmtptz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/meet-nightshade-the-new-tool-allowing-artists-to-poison-ai-models-with-corrupted-training-data-jfjcmtptz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/meet-nightshade-the-new-tool-allowing-artists-to-poison-ai-models-with-corrupted-training-data-jfjcmtptz"},"datePublished":"2023-10-23T23:36:25.316Z","dateModified":"2023-12-23T02:12:41.293Z","description":"A new open source tool called Nightshade allows artists to 'poison' AI models with corrupted training data by altering pixels in a way that is invisible to the...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/764ad822702d2a5d6273babd48ad1989?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/764ad822702d2a5d6273babd48ad1989?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Venture Beat","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Venture Beat","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/a55b09fe104a44d6b5f4c88ed0fd1315","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/venturebeat"},"commentCount":3,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/meet-nightshade-the-new-tool-allowing-artists-to-poison-ai-models-with-corrupted-training-data-jfjcmtptz","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":15},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}],"keywords":"ai,automl,business,chatgpt,conversational-ai,midjourney,nlp,openai,stable-diffusion,text-to-image","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Venture Beat","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/venturebeat"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/meet-nightshade-the-new-tool-allowing-artists-to-poison-ai-models-with-corrupted-training-data-jfjcmtptz","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"In my opinion this is kind of pointless as while its invisible to human eye, its easily spotted by a software that controls submissions before to train the model, and eventually reworked “without poison” or discharged completely.","datePublished":"2023-11-09T11:31:42.124Z","dateModified":"2023-11-09T11:33:07.045Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/jfJCMtPtz#c-jbu9uSZWO","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Alessio Cenizzi","url":"https://daily.dev/coin_spark","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/79489078?v=4"}}]} ```