Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft'.

Patience always has its limits and, once exceeded, the consequences are more than justified. The recent rise of artificial intelligence has undoubtedly shaken the planet, irrevocably changing the world of work, education and research. It has proven time and again to be a valuable resource, and its implementation in some areas has been able to improve processes of study and workmanship - this does not detract from the fact that, conversely, its coming has brought a certain level of discomfort and unease for young workers in the arts.

A group of hackers therefore decided to take matters into their own hands. Tired of the misuse of others' work perpetrated by big companies, the NULLBULGE group started hacking users who use ComfyUI, a popular interface for Stable Diffusion, by corrupting ComfyUI_LLMVISION, an extension shared for free on Github, thus making it malicious.

On its website, the group then published a list of alleged credentials to access the accounts of hundreds of users.