Where: Associated Press, “Artists Are Taking Things Into Their Own Hands to Protect Their Work From Generative AI”
Who: Jinghui Chen, assistant professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST)
What: Chen was quoted in a story about artists’ attempts to fight against image-generative AI. He remarked that programs like Glaze and Nightshade — which help prevent art from being used without the creators’ permission — are an important first step. These programs provide some protection by making it harder for people trying to use AI to mimic an artist’s style, but they aren’t perfect.
“When AI becomes stronger and stronger, these anti-AI tools will become weaker and weaker,” Chen said, adding that it's important to raise questions about the efficacy of these types of tools in order to improve them.
Chen co-authored “IMPRESS: Evaluating the Resilience of Imperceptible Perturbations Against Unauthorized Data Usage in Diffusion-Based Generative AI” with Bochuan Coa, a graduate student pursuing a doctoral degree in informatics in the College of IST; Jinyuan Jia, an assistant professor in IST; and other collaborators. The paper was accepted to the 37th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), which was held in New Orleans last December.