How Accurate Is AI at Mimicking Art Styles? Here's What Our Study Found

Table of Links

Abstract and 1. Introduction

2. Background and Related Work

3. Threat Model

4. Robust Style Mimicry

5. Experimental Setup

6. Results

   6.1 Main Findings: All Protections are Easily Circumvented

   6.2 Analysis

7. Discussion and Broader Impact, Acknowledgements, and References

A. Detailed Art Examples

B. Robust Mimicry Generations

C. Detailed Results

D. Differences with Glaze Finetuning

E. Findings on Glaze 2.0

F. Findings on Mist v2

G. Methods for Style Mimicry

H. Existing Style Mimicry Protections

I. Robust Mimicry Methods

J. Experimental Setup

K. User Study

L. Compute Resources

C Detailed Results

C.1 Mimicry Quality Versus Style

This section includes the detailed results from our user study. As mentioned in Section 5, we ask users to assess quality and stylistic fit separately in our study. Figure 16 and 17 show the results for each of these evaluations separately (the results in the main body represent the average of the two). Finally, Table 1 includes numerical results for each scenario.

C.2 Results Broken Down per Artist

We present next the results obtained for each artist in each scenario. Table 2 plots the success rate for each method against each protection for all artists, and Table 3 includes the detailed success rates.

Table 3: User preference ratings of all style mimicry scenarios S ∈ M for each artist A ∈ A by name. Each cell states the percentage of votes that prefer an image generated under the corresponding scenario S and artist A ∈ A over a matching image generated under clean style mimicry. Higher percentages indicate weaker attacks or better defenses.

C.3 Inter-Annotator Agreement