Artificial Intelligence, "Leonardo da Vinci drawing style" an image created by the Midjourney AI art tool. Search results in Google Lens.
Artificial intelligence technologies for image creation and analysis are making a huge impact on art, design, and the study of art history. What does this mean for academic research and for academic content creation? When using images in your scholarly work remember these key points:
Authenticity: When you use an image in your research, you must know and cite the source of that image. When using a general search engine, like Google images, always fact check your images and find the original source. These tools can help:
Pro tip: If these reverse search engines do not find a source, or any similar images, that can be a red flag that they are AI generated.
Glaze. The Glaze project is a free tool developed at the University of Chicago to protect artists from having their work scraped and used by AI image generators. Glaze adds hidden (pixel) data to digital works and online images to 'confuse' AI scraping programs.
Nightshade. Developed by the University of Chicago, Nightshade disrupts AI image datasets by adding 'poison pill' data that leads the AI image generator to misidentify images and concepts.
Have I Been Trained. This online tool allows anyone to upload an image to discover if their work or personal photographs have been used in AI training datasets.