Artist sabotaging AI

A new tool called Kudurru has been launched by a startup called Spawning to help artists block new attempts to train AI models on their work. How does it work? Spawning basically operates a "defense network" of websites to generate an IP blacklist. Beyond simply blocking blacklisted IP addresses, artists can opt to sabotage or "poison" the scraped training data by sending back a different image than the one requested. It's too early to tell how this might play out but this kind of sabotage could end up spoiling how AI generators interpret prompts. Artists and creative workers are truly on the forefront of the battle with creeping AI, from organised labor movements, to author lawsuits and copyright activists, and of course, creative technological sabotage.