"The Glaze Project (including Glaze, Nightshade, WebGlaze and others) is a research effort that develops technical tools with the explicit goal of protecting human creatives against invasive uses of generative artificial intelligence or GenAI."
"Glazing works by shifting the AI model's view of your style in its “feature space” (the conceptual space where AI models interpret artistic styles). If you, like other artists, already have a significant amount of artwork online, then an AI model like Stable Diffusion has likely already downloaded those images, and used them to learn your style as a location in its feature space. However, these AI models are always adding more training data in order to improve their accuracy and keep up with changes in artistic trend looks over time. The more cloaked images you post online, the more your style will shift in the AI model's feature space, shifting closer to the target style (e.g., abstract cubism). At some point, when the shift is significant enough, the AI model will start to generate images in van Gogh's style when being asked for your style. "