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 with a yellow tint, then chances are, that image would be put into a dataset that models may later use and make the tint stronger in the next generation.

Glaze and Nightshade Are Still Recommended

The best way any artist can poison AI is using programs such as Glaze and Nightshade, preferably both. However, as someone who did try to use these programs, I'm well aware that not every computer has the bandwidth to run those programs. So, if you're working with either an older device or a budget one, then the next best thing is to feed into this bias. Let your palettes bias towards warm colors, so that way when they're inevitable used, the AI would have another warm color-based piece of "data" to work with.

While this may not be the most effective, or highly recommended, way to go about it, it should prove to be more accessible no matter what your computer situation is.

If you would like some hope and read why artists will outlast AI, feel free to check out this blog post: https://dextiveblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-artists-will-survive-gen-ai.html

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