A Twitter thread about a new tool to protect artists from AI art mimicry:
So how big of a wooden shoe would we be throwing into the gears if people started passing regular photos through this filter as well?
Glaze is specifically based on the recognition and transfer of artistic style by ML tools, and interferes with attempts to learn and reproduce a specific named artist's style. as far as I can tell, it doesn't substantially impact attempts to produce generic art pieces without prompting for the style of a specific artist, so applying it to regular photos would do pretty much nothing. it also assumes that an artist is able to apply the tool to at least 25% of their publicly available art, so it doesn't seem like this or similar tools would be able to meaningfully poison the well for broader domains of images beyond a specific artist's work.
