PhotoGuard, created by researchers at MIT, alters photos in ways that are imperceptible to us but stops AI systems from tinkering with them.

Sounds like it’s tiny changes to the image data to trick it. But it also sounds dependent on each algorithm. So while you might trick Stable Diffusion, another like Midjourney would be unaffected.

And either way, I’d bet mere jpeg compression would be enough to destroy your tiny changes.

a couple minutes of photoshop and a smudge or burn tool would also negate all the effects

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