I wanted to share with HPR peeps four ways to hack our

robot/corporate overlords:

Fawkes - named for Guy Fawkes, the face mask of anonymous

and hackers around the world

Glaze - a digital paint curing process to protect your

art

Nightshade, a software blue pill you can hide in your

digital creations so that any AI consuming your work without your

permission will also consume your blue pill and be sucked into a world

of endless hallucinations

Agalmic organizations, the future of AI business, invented

by Charles Stross in his second most famous SciFi novel

Accelerando, written in 2005 but set in the years 2025-2040

during what he called the singularity and others now call the #pancrisis

or post-truth era or 21 Lessons of the 21st Century

Those first three applications were invented by Ben Zhao a Neubauer

professor at the University of Chicago

Here are links to more resources about each one:

Fawkes sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/

to cloak your selfies, can it be made to work on video? github.com/Shawn-Shan/fawkes

Glaze glaze-usenix23.pdf

to make it difficult to do style transfer on your images. All your art

will look like pollucks If someone asked models to imitate your store.

Anime and graphic novels are hard.

NightShade arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13828.pdf

only needs to poison pill 50 of your images so they will destroy the

feature space of any AI model that tries to learn your style from them,

they cause models trained on them to hallucinate. Fill in the vacuum of

the Swiss cheese holes of your feature space (embedding vectors). There

is someone developing an antidote: github.com/RichardAragon/NightshadeAntidote

Your local used book store is the best place to find copies of

Accelerando or the Lobsters short story released in several periodicals

and SciFi compendiums over the years.