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This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art

MIT Technology Review - AI
Jul 10, 2025 09:00
Peter Hall
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Summary

A new technique called LightShed can bypass existing anti-AI protections on digital art, making it easier for generative AI models to use artists' work for training. This development escalates the ongoing conflict between artists seeking to protect their creations and AI developers, raising concerns about copyright, consent, and the future of digital art in the AI era.

A new technique called LightShed will make it harder for artists to use existing protective tools to stop their work from being ingested for AI training. It’s the next step in a cat-and-mouse game—across technology, law, and culture—that has been going on between artists and AI proponents for years. Generative AI models that create images…
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