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@Ghilegab's art blog • She/her • Mid-twenties • Occasionally NSFW • I love arm and I draw strong gals bein pals.

[ghilenan]

Anyone want a quick little portrait of their blorbo? Or two? Or three? 👀

I wanna do a handful of these to cover some emergency bills, so send me a DM or email me with a reference or two of the character(s) in question, their notable traits, and/or the Vibe™ you want to see 👀

Payment upfront via PayPal

[email protected]

[ghilenan]

Anyone want a quick little portrait of their blorbo? Or two? Or three? 👀

I wanna do a handful of these to cover some emergency bills, so send me a DM or email me with a reference or two of the character(s) in question, their notable traits, and/or the Vibe™ you want to see 👀

Payment upfront via PayPal

[email protected]

[ghilenan]

Anyone want a quick little portrait of their blorbo? Or two? Or three? 👀

I wanna do a handful of these to cover some emergency bills, so send me a DM or email me with a reference or two of the character(s) in question, their notable traits, and/or the Vibe™ you want to see 👀

Payment upfront via PayPal

[email protected]

[ghilenan]

Anyone want a quick little portrait of their blorbo? Or two? Or three? 👀

I wanna do a handful of these to cover some emergency bills, so send me a DM or email me with a reference or two of the character(s) in question, their notable traits, and/or the Vibe™ you want to see 👀

Payment upfront via PayPal

[email protected]

[ghilenan]

I'm back at it again with the side gig 👀

So if you have a Rook, or Tav, or Hawke, or any other sort of character you want me to draw, drop me an email at the address below or just message me here!

I can also do multiple characters, sketches, flat colors, etc 😎

[email protected]

[ghilenan]

I'm back at it again with the side gig 👀

So if you have a Rook, or Tav, or Hawke, or any other sort of character you want me to draw, drop me an email at the address below or just message me here!

I can also do multiple characters, sketches, flat colors, etc 😎

[email protected]

[ghilenan]

A couple of recent commissions! The bookish fella on the left was done for an anonymous client, and the lovely couple on the right is for @telltalebatman!

[ghilenan]

A sweet lil doodle I did for @glytchmeister a while ago and completely forgot to post 🙈

[ghilenan]

A sweet lil doodle I did for @glytchmeister a while ago and completely forgot to post 🙈

[ghilenan]

I'm back at it again with the side gig 👀

So if you have a Rook, or Tav, or Hawke, or any other sort of character you want me to draw, drop me an email at the address below or just message me here!

I can also do multiple characters, sketches, flat colors, etc 😎

[email protected]

[ghilenan]

Btw have y'all met her yet (you haven't, she's new here)

[ghilenan]

Interest check!

If I were to open commissions in a week or two 👀 would y'all be interested? 👀

[ghilenan]

Okay! Dang!! Didn't expect anyone to even still be paying attention to this account but hell yea!! I'll whip up a lil sheet this week :D

[ghilenan]

Interest check!

If I were to open commissions in a week or two 👀 would y'all be interested? 👀

[thelocalmuffin]

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

[yeahwrite]

Writers: It's asking to read your Google Docs and be able to 'summarize' things from them and such things. I just turned all mine off.

[last-starry-sky]

Because this isn't mentioned above, also go to google.com/drive/settings and turn off all the annoying bits that interface directly with docs there.

This is all in the "privacy" tab of your settings. How fun that everything is hidden two layers deep. 🙄 This DOESN'T get rid of the stupid little star constantly asking you to use it, unfortunately, but that's what the picker in ublock is for. 😉

[buf309]

More detail instructions for OP's post for those who are confused. This is done from the browser on my laptop, I don't know what they look like on phones.

When you click the first link gemini.google.com/extensions, you need to click on the setting icon at the bottom, then choose "Extension", like this:

Scroll down a bit, you will see the options, turn them all off.

Then, you click on the second link myactivity.google.com/product/gemini, you'll see it tells you that it's already "turn off". NO! IT'S NOT! You have to click on that "Turn off" option, it'll drop down a menu like this:

Turn that thing off. Until that button shows you have to click to turn it back on like this:

And then, click on the delete button down there too, even if it says there's nothing to delete, just do it as a caution.

After you's done with those two. You go to your Drive, find the Setting button.

Click on the "Privacy" tab, choose the button "Manage Workspace smart feature setting"

Tick both of those off, then click Save. Or if you still want to use Google AI assistant for some reasons, please read the fine lines very very carefully.

Only then, you can feel safe enough with this force AI assistant bullshit. FOR NOW 🤡 All these steps still can't get rid of that Gemini blinkblink icon though >:(((((

Repeat for every one of your google accounts 💀

[ghilenan]

Finished a screenshot study I started and abandoned years ago 😎

[ghilenan]

Y'all know what this means 👀

[ghilenan]

A couple of BG3 commissions I finished recently, for @aerwindoesthething and @morganlefaye79 respectively! I cannot overstate how much I enjoyed working on them 🥺

[glytchmeister]

Hey, check out Glaze and Nightshade; two free and I think open-source tools developed by researchers at the University of Chicago to combat nonconsensual AI image scraping!

Glaze:

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

Glaze tricks Style Mimicry AI’s into thinking an art piece’s style is something wildly different - the example given in their website is tricking an AI into thinking a realist charcoal value drawing (like my pfp) is actually a colorful abstract splatter painting (think Jackson Pollock). It can’t even be circumvented with screenshots or using photoshop to smooth out pixels and stuff like that, so it will defeat all but the most dedicated and hands-on scrapers, and only if they themselves have an post-graduate collegiate level of understanding on how both their AI and Glaze work. And anyone with that kind of knowledge is very unlikely to be spending their time ripping off artists.

It also has some limited effectiveness against weaker image-to-image transformation models (like the little one built into Stable Diffusion), but stronger and more dedicated models like controlnet don’t break unless you use very high Glaze intensity settings, which can make it more noticeable to the human eye.

ALSO it can actually protect the un-glazed images you’ve already uploaded! Because it confuses AI’s about your style, if you start using Glaze, it will poison the AI’s dataset and still cause it to get confused about your style, even if you have a big online portfolio posted on websites like tumblr or Facebook which probably keep your images in their storage even if you take them down.

Nightshade:

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

Nightshade, on the other hand, goes on the offensive. It poisons AI datasets regarding how they interpret the objects portrayed in an image. This causes the AI to start outputting nonsensical images that don’t match the prompt’s desired subject matter - the example given is it tricks the AI into thinking a cow is a leather purse. The more poisoned images of cows fed into the AI’s dataset, the more convinced the AI becomes that cows are brown leather bags with pockets, handles, zippers, and brand logos.

It’s most effective when used by lots of artists, especially groups who share subject matter (“person”, “cow”, “tree”, etc), so please spread the word amongst your peers AND to other genres of artists.

So, for you Ghilenan, if a bunch of people who do BG3 and D&D character commissions on tumblr use nightshade, ai scrapers will basically have to blacklist Tumblr as a source for BG3/D&D character portrait examples, because the whole well has been poisoned, even if only a small percentage of artists are poisonous.

If poisoned images get shared to other websites, they’ll start poisoning those wells, too. In a way, this kinda weaponizes dickhead reposters against AI, which I find particularly hilarious.

They currently can be used together, technically, maybe…

But they weren’t really designed for it. Nightshade might undercut the Anti-style-mimicry effectiveness of Glaze, so the devs currently recommend using only Glaze if you are at all worried about style mimicry - if you have a particularly unique style that is or may be targeted for concentrated style mimicry attacks.

But if you mostly do art of a style that isn’t very unique (like how my profile pic can be summed up as “charcoal realist value drawing”), then it’s probably better to use Nightshade.

HOWEVER, the devs are working on making a tool that does BOTH at the same time, in a single pass. I don’t know the time frame on this, but I eagerly await it.

Regardless, it can’t hurt to start using one or the other.