AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’. By Carl Franzen January 29, 2024 1:46 PM Nightshade, a new, free downloadable tool created by computer science researchers at the University of Chicago designed to be used by artists to disrupt AI models scraping and training on their artworks without consent, has received 250,000 downloads in the first five days of its release. https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai-poisoning-tool-nightshade-received-250000-downloads-in-5-days-beyond-anything-we-imagined/