[starrynet]

what's your favorite sports headline that could also be a whimsical fantasy story plot point if taken out of context?

I'm pissed because we lost to some elves

darius slay says he was "this close" to becoming a raven

transfer portal created in good faith, but is out of control

power of friendship helps spark sharks' historic comeback victory over penguins

jay cutler passed his physical and is officially a dolphin

nightmare eels season

hawks trade young to wizards

vikings discovered new way to stop the eagles' dreaded tush push

p-bruins topped by bears

are newark's mummies to blame for devils' bad injury luck?

seattle kraken hockey player, sea troll charged by grizzly bear

Voting ended onJan 16

(inspired by this classic tumblr post)

[wbluesky]

I love DF so much, lmao

[rurukatt]

hot things to say during sex

inventory is full

I’m out of range

I can’t carry any more

that spell isn’t ready yet

I need to target something first

it’s too far away

[sepiamestus]

I would like to apologize to every single one of my wips ever

[quietwingsinthesky]

the fact that any video game ever gets made is a fucking miracle, let alone good ones.

[quietwingsinthesky]

whenever someone explains to me how video games work, i feel like ive been exposed to some horrifying cthulu ass shit that i can never unsee.

[jv]

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

[jv]

And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.

Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.

[jv]

Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.

[salora-rainriver]

Just tested. It’s possible to swap out pictures on already-published posts. So in that case, a solution:

Nightshade your photo posts now.

Even if you don’t post your own art anymore, go back to your old stuff and watermark it.

Do it ASAP, before the deal goes through and the scraping begins.

This will not only protect your art, but has the opportunity to fuck over this deal on a pretty large scale. The more of these posts that are glazed or poisoned, the less valuable this deal becomes for tumblr and midjourney.

Share this with everyone. And i do mean everyone.

[headspace-hotel]

Haven't checked this yet, but it would be a real shame if so many people put their photos thru Nightshade that it fucks up the midjourney data irreparably, yes?

[northshorewave]

Reading sports headlines while pretending sports doesn't exist suggests a fascinating world of magic and whimsy.

[northshorewave]

[dinosaur-unicorns]

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

[steeple-sinderby-wanderers]

[hyper-lynx]

[charlestrask]

sexual thrill at the mere prospect of cataloging things in a database

[unadulteratedpiratepizza]

I like to come up with horrible video game mechanic ideas designed to piss off certain subsections of gamers without effecting the gameplay experience of the average player.

For example, what if I made a completely normal action adventure game, but the final boss is inaccessible by any means until the in-game time reaches 3 hours? If the game had an average play time of 10 hours, this would not effect the average gamer. It would, however, piss off speedrunners. If I wanted to rub salt into the wounds, I could make that three hour limit have a variable of up to five minutes late or early. I think the runners would come after me with pitchforks

[louistonehill]

A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

Continue reading article here

[netherstray]

November 26, 2016 - Turkey Protest, Stormwind City - Moon Guard

[krudman]

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. 

New anti-AI tool from the team developing Glaze that looks to poison prompts and ruin data sets entirely.

The tool can go so far as to trick AI into generating things it didn't ask for. 50 "poisoned" images of dogs into a data set yield typical errors companies have been working to get rid of: weird proportions, extra limbs, etc. When they added 300 samples, it was drastic enough to make a data set that was trained to generate "dogs" into "cats" making the tool basically useless.

It's not out yet, but they're adding it to Glaze and they intend on making it open source.

Welcome to the age of the AI arms race.

[mamoru]

holy shit the new unity pricing plan

[mamoru]

if I understand correctly...

developers have to pay a fee per install

even if the game is pirated

even if they started development years ago

but does this mean one machine installing a thousand times costs money? does this mean currently released unity games have to pay as well? is there any clause for what happens if the installs are done as a malicious campaign, or does this just give unity a blank check to bankrupt any developer they want if they set up a rack of machines doing malicious uninstalls and installs?

[mamoru]

cult of the lamb announced they are deleting their game entirely on january 1st 2024 in response to the unity fees, and that if you want this game you should buy it now

[mamoru]

statements from innersloth (developers of among us) and aggro crab (developers of going under)

[bobacupcake]

"but does this mean one machine installing a thousand times costs money?" sure does!

"does this mean currently released unity games have to pay as well?" yes! all your favorite currently released unity games will start owing unity hundreds of thousands of dollars starting 2024!

"is there any clause for what happens if the installs are done as a malicious campaign or does this just give unity a blank check to bankrupt any developer they want if they set up a rack of machines doing malicious uninstalls and installs?"

they claim they have a fraud detection program, and are going to work on finding a way to detect these sorts of things, but this is all on unitys end in their little black box

doing the math, this does essentially mean, if you make a free mobile game with a little bit of monetization on the free version of unity and its a hit success, with 3 million downloads and make 200k and one cent, you now owe unity 400k

[phantomrose96]

The absolute audacity of "our own data sucks too much to differentiate among downloads, and due to said shittiness of our telemetry we can't distinguish redownloads from new ones. Instead of fixing our fucking data we've opted to take the option that benefits us most by charging the developers for every single one."

[an-eccentric-devil]

[dduane]

AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says In Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause

A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.

“While cameras generated a mechanical reproduction of a scene, she explained that it does so only after a human develops a ‘mental conception’ of the photo, which is a product of decisions like where the subject stands, arrangements and lighting, among other choices.

“‘Human involvement in, and ultimate creative control over, the work at issue was key to the conclusion that the new type of work fell within the bounds of copyright,’ Howell wrote.”

[darbypea]

I've started to see people use AI to make ship art. If you're a mutual of mine and you respect me, don't reblog those. Even if it looks like really cool art of your ship. I WILL block you because I'm going to take it as a sign of disrespect. I work very hard on my art to give people in the fandoms I love some good content.

Every AI has been trained on the work of hardworking artists without their consent. Your ship is not more important than the exploitation of these artists.

[northshorewave]

Reading sports headlines while pretending sports doesn't exist suggests a fascinating world of magic and whimsy.

[northshorewave]

[dinosaur-unicorns]