Anthony Rhodes, Megan McKissack, Shawna Lipton

The project was created using My Art My Choice (MAMC), an AI art protection tool developed by Rhodes et al. and published in CVPR ’24 (“My Art My Choice: Adversarial Protection Against Unruly AI”). MAMC generates adversarially "protected" versions of images by applying gradient-based perturbations that mislead diffusion models like Stable Diffusion, causing them to produce distorted or fragmented outputs while preserving the visual integrity of the original piece. 

The artwork consists of animated transitions between original Creative Commons-licensed artworks and the disrupted generative outputs of MAMC-protected versions, exploring the tension between creation and protection in the AI era. Aesthetically, the work creates a shifting, glitch-like visual language that reflects the clash between artistic agency and machine learning appropriation. This tension raises deeper questions about artistic control and ownership in the face of AI-generated content, positioning MAMC as both a creative tool and a form of resistance against unauthorized AI replication. The work draws on artistic movements like Dadaism and glitch art, using disruption as a medium to comment on the evolving relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence.

Anthony Rhodes (Intel Labs), Megan McKissack (Pacific NW College of Art), Shawna Lipton (Pacific NW College of Art).

Anthony Rhodes, Ram Bhagat, Umur Aybars Ciftci, Ilke Demir; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024, pp. 8389-8394.