With a following as large as hers — more than 4.3 million people on Instagram — she worries that AI's data on her work could be used as a powerful tool for online impersonation or harassment, she told Insider.
In the meantime, Andersen has no way to take down all of her work, which she's consistently uploaded for the last 12 years. Besides, social media contributes to essentially all of her current income, she said.against AI companies like OpenAI and Stability AI, which says the firms trained their models on billions of artworks without the artists' consent.
"If I'm an AI company, I actually wouldn't be very concerned about this. Glaze basically adds noise to the art, and if I really wanted to crack their protection systems, it's possible to do that, it's very simple," Lu told Insider. Tech systems designed to safeguard someone's work are legally protected in some countries, but it's unclear if a program like Glaze might fall under that category, Martin Senftleben, professor of information law at the University of Amsterdam, told Insider.What else can artists hope for?
One legal course for artists might be a licensing system that pays them when their art is used to teach AI, Senftleben said. Or countries could levy profits from AI-generated works to channel money back into artists' pockets, he added. But it could take years, maybe even a decade, for those laws to take effect, he said."Glaze was never meant to be a perfect thing," he said.