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I compiled a short list of anti-AI tools. If you know of others, please add them

[added ArtShield, Anti-DreamBooth and Mist on 2025-04-01]

Anti-AI tools

Glaze
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu
Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry. At a high level, Glaze works by understanding the AI models that are training on human art, and using machine learning algorithms, computing a set of minimal changes to artworks, such that it appears unchanged to human eyes, but appears to AI models like a dramatically different art style.

Nightshade
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/
Nightshade, a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training

ArtShield
https://artshield.io
ArtShield embeds a well-camouflaged watermark into your images that helps prevent AI models from training on your data. This watermark is what models such as Stable Diffusion use to mark images that it generates in order to prevent it from training off of data it has produced itself.

Anti-DreamBooth
https://github.com/VinAIResearch/Anti-DreamBooth
The system aims to add subtle noise perturbation to each user's image before publishing in order to disrupt the generation quality of any DreamBooth model trained on these perturbed images.

Mist
https://github.com/psyker-team/mist-v2
Mist is a powerful image preprocessing tool designed for the purpose of protecting the style and content of images from being mimicked by state-of-the-art AI-for-Art applications.

HarmonyCloak
https://mosis.eecs.utk.edu/harmonycloak.html
HarmonyCloak is designed to protect musicians from the unauthorized exploitation of their work by generative AI models. At its core, HarmonyCloak functions by introducing imperceptible, error-minimizing noise into musical compositions.

Kudurru
https://kudurru.ai
Actively block AI scrapers from your website with Spawning's defense network

Nepenthes
https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it's targetting crawlers that scrape data for LLMs - but really, like the plants it is named after, it'll eat just about anything that finds it's way inside.

AI Labyrinth
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/
Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.

More tools, suggested by comments on this posts:

Anubis
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/
Anubis is a reverse proxy that requires browsers and bots to solve a proof-of-work challenge before they can access your site.

Iocaine
https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org
The goal of iocaine is to generate a stable, infinite maze of garbage.