This clever, “poisonous” new software is helping artists defend their work from AI

Nightshade gives artists a stealthy tool to fight back against copyright infringement. Since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, sparking a frenzy of artificial intelligence development, artists have faced a dilemma. In order to build an audience for their work, they need to share it online. But by sharing it online, they risk having it used by tech companies, which train their AI models on the art without the artist’s consent, and without compensation....