Artists are losing the battle against AI. Glaze, a tool that’s found a way to trick algorithms, is giving them a fighting chance.

• A team at the University of Chicago says they’ve found a new way to protect art from AI.
• Their program, Glaze, cloaks an image that feeds learning models with inaccurate data.
• Downloaded over 890,000 times, it offers artists a chance to counter AI taking their work without consent.

In the fall of 2022, AI came for Autumn Beverly.

It was only months after the 31-year-old based in Ohio started pursuing art full-time and quit her day job as a dog trainer. She’d tweet her work, mostly colored pencil sketches of animals, trying to make a name for herself. Gigs trickled in — a logo request here, a concept art job there.