Sometimes a red balloon is an egg…
Data poisoning: how artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators, by T.J. Thomson, The Conversation, December 17, 2023
Imagine this. You need an image of a balloon for a work presentation and turn to a text-to-image generator, like Midjourney or DALL-E, to create a suitable image.
You enter the prompt: “red balloon against a blue sky” but the generator returns an image of an egg instead. You try again but this time, the generator shows an image of a watermelon.
What’s going on?
The generator you’re using may have been “poisoned”.