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For me the funniest moment of this whole saga was when the AI bros were claiming that they weren't stealing anyone's art, but then flipped shit when a FOSS tool released that let people reformat their art pieces specifically so that it'd be harmful to AI art generators that copied them.
You've got it backwards. Glaze and Nightshade aren't FOSS and Ben Zhao, the University of Chicago professor behind them stole GPLv3 code for glaze. GPLv3 is a copyleft license that requires you share your source code and license your project under the same terms as the code you used. You also can’t distribute your project as a binary-only or proprietary software. When pressed, they only released the code for their front end, remaining in violation of the terms of the GPLv3 license.
Moreover, Nightshade and Glaze also only works against open source models, because the only open models are Stable Diffusion's, companies like Midjourney and OpenAI with closed source models aren't affected by this. Attacking a tool that the public can inspect, collaborate on, and offer free of cost isn’t something that should be celebrated.