AI vs. AI: MIT researchers combat image manipulation

A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has designed a new tool to jam AI image generators, using invisible “perturbations” at the pixel level of an image.

A release describes how the PhotoGuard technique uses a combination of offensive and defensive tactics to block AI tools such as DALL-E or Midjourney from manipulating photos to create deepfakes and other compromised images. In the encoding tactic, perturbations are small alterations to the latent representation …

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