2023

Glaze: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models

Shan, Shawn, Cryan, Jenna, Wenger, Emily et al.

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Recent text-to-image diffusion models such as MidJourney and Stable Diffusion threaten to displace many in the professional artist community.

  • In particular, models can learn to mimic the artistic style of specific artists after "fine-tuning" on samples of their art.
  • In this paper, we describe the design, implementation and evaluation of Glaze, a tool that enables artists to apply "style cloaks" to their art before sharing online.
  • These cloaks apply barely perceptible perturbations to images, and when used as training data, mislead generative models that try to mimic a specific artist.

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