Artist Jingna Zhang built Cara, a platform explicitly intended to protect artists from having their art stolen by AI...and yet these people just won't leave them well enough alone.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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Poisoning it is sadly an Arms Race, one that will inevitably be lost
And then won, and then lost, and then won. That's how an arms race works. And we have the advantage in numbers. There are far more people who don't want their shit scalped than people working for the morons at OpenAI, or Google or Anthropic. And yes, they ARE morons. The battle is only lost when one side gives up. You only lose when you accept defeat.
The issue is that they can just reuse the existing art once they've "removed" the poison that was used on it. The artworks with poison in them aren't forever inaccessible to them, they just get them slightly later.
That doesn't mean we should stop, but it still is a war that we ultimately can't win. Even if the poison technology advances faster than the AI companies are, they can simply use slightly older art with a less sophisticated version of poison.
I mean, is the goal to prevent training or poison training. Yes nightshade will never prevent your work from being trained on, but hopefully models don't know it's poisoned and it sows model dysfunction.