The Most Effective Way to Poison AI
The Most Effective Way to Poison AI An Observation In early 2025, something happened. OpenAI launched an image generator, and many people were instantly hooked with one particular style it can recreate: Hayao Miyazaki's. A phenomenon in which many artists were rightfully appalled, as it went against the very artist's principles. Chances are, many people likely didn't realize this, as they called it "Ghibli Art," erasing Miyazaki from the picture whether they intended to or not. But funnily enough, the style's use of warm colors would only prove to be detrimental to AI imagery and its development as a whole. How Did This Harm Generative AI Models? AI has a bias towards warm colors, to the point of giving many images it generates a yellow tint. Now, it's not just this trend that caused this to happen. Datasets are biased towards warm colors due to sunsets, old paintings tinted with age, and other images that feature yellows. The AI would output an image wit...
