Glaze

In February 2023, a team of researchers at the University of Chicago released a free software tool called Glaze that is designed to use machine learning to fine-tune the pixels of user-provided artwork, thereby changing its style to prevent any AI art generation model from crawling and training it. The goal of this tool is to help artists prevent AI models from imitating their artistic style without adversely affecting their own work. Not only do artists lose commissions and basic income when their style is intentionally copied, but low-quality synthetic copies distributed online also weaken their brand and reputation. Glaz…