ai security

How Glaze and Nightshade try to protect artists

In the last post we saw how systems powered by AI shift harm between population segments, and that there are some practical, physical methods that can be employed to shift those harms back. These were called Protective Optimization Technologies (POTs) because they are designed to protect the people who employ …

How to protect yourself from AI

It's trite to note how pervasive AI systems are becoming but that doesn't make it less true. Some of these systems -- like AI chatbots -- are highly visible and a common part of the public discours, which has spurred some notable AI pioneers to publicly denounce them. However most AI powered …

You Only Look Eighty times: defending object detectors with repeated masking

We've been reading through a lot of papers recently about defenses against adversarial attacks on computer vision models. We've got two more to go!

[For now anyway. The pace of machine learning research these days is dizzying]