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Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, April 22, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
The Glaze Project deployed WebGlaze in August 2023, a free invite-only web service that lets artists apply the same style-cloaking protection as the desktop Glaze app directly from a phone, tablet, or browser, without needing a powerful personal computer. The Glaze team runs the processing on GPU servers at the University of Chicago.
Details
WebGlaze accepts image uploads via a web form along with a strength parameter and email address; the image is routed to University of Chicago servers, processed by the Glaze algorithm on a GPU, and the cloaked result is emailed back to the user. Both the original and processed images are deleted immediately after delivery. Access is invite-only and restricted to human artists who do not use generative AI tools. WebGlaze was initially hosted on Amazon AWS but as of the most recent disclosure is run on a University of Chicago GPU server.
Products affected
WebGlaze (web service)
Sources & Evidence
Company Disclosure
Cite this record
Trace Foundation. (2026). Glaze: The Glaze Project deployed WebGlaze in August 2023, a free invite-only web service that lets artists apply the same style-cloaking protection as the desktop Glaze app directly from a phone, tablet, or browser, without needing a powerful personal computer. The Glaze team runs the processing on GPU servers at the University of Chicago (data as of 2026-04-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/b2569781-3e05-4e33-a461-170b94b9dd46. Accessed September 7, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/b2569781-3e05-4e33-a461-170b94b9dd46
- Data as of
- April 22, 2026
- Last verified
- April 22, 2026
Other practices by Glaze
OtherThe Glaze Project offers a free downloadable app called Glaze that uses machine learning to apply invisible pixel-level changes to artworks, causing AI image-generation models to misread an artist's style and fail to mimic it accurately. Artists apply Glaze to their images before posting them online, as a defensive measure against unauthorized style copying by systems like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.OtherThe Glaze Project offers a free downloadable tool called Nightshade that allows artists to apply invisible pixel-level changes to their images before posting online, causing AI image-generation models that train on those images to learn incorrect associations between objects and concepts. It was publicly released in January 2024 and has been downloaded more than 2.5 million times.
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