Lots of artists are fearful about generative AI. They’re concerned about web crawlers scraping images from their web pages to coach AI models without permission and/or compensation.
I spent the last 4 weeks researching this topic and located numerous information on how these models work and find out how to prevent the bots from stealing your work.
TL;DR — The simplest thing you possibly can do is turn off AI crawler access to your website using settings in your hosting service, like SquareSpace and others. More details on this and other steps you possibly can take are below.
In this text, I’ll provide some background on how text-to-image AI models work, including Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DALL-E 3. Next, I’ll show you find out how to detect if these models have been using your images for training. Finally, I provides you with advice and steps which you could take to forestall the bots from stealing your stuff.