Glaze: Protecting artists from style mimicry
I think a lot of folks are missing the point thinking this needs to be super-robust to be useful.<p>This is a hedge against courts deciding scraping data for training purposes is valid.<p>Maybe you&#x27;re allowed to scrape data, but with this, now you are applying a filter (creating a derivative work) to defeat a copyright protection mechanism, both clearly prohibited in current law (US jurisdiction at least). For any serious player scraping this opens your buisness up to huge lawsuits. For any serious player making tools, you&#x27;ll specifically avoid defeating these techniques. For any minor player you&#x27;ll now have to go to the backwaters of the internet for tools to do this that you hope won&#x27;t steal your bitcoins.<p>Every notable artist will be only upload their art to sites that offer something like this, paid at first, but when the cost are low enough, pretty much every site that wants art content will offer it.<p>This isn&#x27;t a technical solution to this problem, it&#x27;s a political solution that happens to use tech.