meigo the sogo apologist

meigo | she/him | also artist kinda

[mmeigo]

i love you my tragic yaoi

[soapyakships]

perhaps a true love's kiss might wake the princess

[foervraengd]

Ppl: “Glaze and nightshade all your art!!”

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.

[foervraengd]

Like majority of digital artists doesnt actually have a high end gaming pc setup. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to be able to run such a heavy program just so we can feel somewhat ok with sharing our drawings online. It’s ridiculous. I CAN NOT nightshade or glaze my artworks even if i wanted to.

[mana-sputachu]

I have a pretty decent gaming PC, and despite this I had to close ALL the running programs I had running in the background (aka Discord and Opera) to let it shade my art, and the result was honestly quite awful even on the lowest setting.

I have already shared it around, but if you can't run it try Artshield.

It will add a big watermark all over your piece (there's also a check button to be sure it worked). It works best on pieces with a colored background, with white backgrounds or B/W piece it won't always work, but it's worth trying it.

Also, post at the lowest resolution possible (I go with 72dpi, keeping the highest one for clients and Ko-Fi rewards only), maybe add a noise effect too. I always did it but I read a while ago it makes a bit difficult for the A/I to scrape the piece. Not sure if it's still true, but still, worth a shot.

Glaze and Nightshade are great tool, but they're sadly unusable for a lot of people, and I hope they'll find a solution.

[xitsensunmoon]

Hey I made a post of available options to people who don't have a powerful tech + tips to make glazing/shading not as ugly :]

[mmeigo]

mafuu yu . . ...

[mmeigo]

continued to work on this old piece i made back in 2023 ><

[mmeigo]

the last bosses my beloveds

[vanyamired]

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

[sfaira]

Everyone reblog! Spread the word so more and more artists learn that in addition to Glaze that coats art against ai scraping mimicry there's also an offensive tool now, able to skew and poison data pools.

Now poisoning will need many artists to nightshade their art and it's most important to get this ou to those the most at risk of being scraped. Reblog!

[mmeigo]

i didnt post anything for 6 years and now i am back helloooooo :3c

[mmeigo]

txts

[mmeigo]

maf

[mmeigo]

mizuki that i drew for my friend's birthday :3c

[owaindin]

Robin: *does anything*

Chrom:

[takeru-tenkuuji]

i forgot to post this

[persona5-trash-blog]

I feel like either Akira or ryuji wrote this

[rumorren]

And people say Akechi is more hated *sigh* This is pretty much a daily when looking up things for Ryuji now. The fanbase is really against this boy and it’s starting to get pretty toxic. It doesn’t feel 50/50 like it does for Akechi more like 30/70.

It bothers me that out of all the characters he’s the type who would jump in front of a car to save someone.(which he did) Let’s not forget how little he thinks about himself, in the anime it had a scene where Ryuji believes he deserves all this hate and be disliked. But he wants his old track team/friends that abandoned him to be in the sun. (WhAt a ShItTy fRiEnD, a shitty friend who let’s his old teammates beat him up in game.) Also did you know if you chose “You deserve that.” After they finish beating him up in the game he responds “Yeah, you’re right I did deserve that.” To add that Ryuji should stay away from Akechi and Yusuke pretty much is ignoring the fact that Ryuji was the one who offers most of the time to feed Yusuke. In mementos Yusuke comments that he has no one to talk to in his school. Ryuji responds “Oh want to go eat some ramen together?” (WhAt A sHiTtY fRiEnD) When Akechi called himself saying “In the end I wasn’t special.” Ryuji was the first to speak. “Dude, you’re more than special.” Heck the boy was the only one to bang on those doors when Akechi is on the other side.

(He’s also a sHiTtY fRiEnD for being the first friend that protag made when the whole school was against him.) I’ll admit he’s not the best character since he does have flaws, but that what makes an amazing character right? He’s relatable because of those flaws, he’s a teenager who just got powers and want to help everyone. It also disappoints me that the fanbase ignored the phone call when he apologize about those flaws to the protag. He did overcome them, in his own way. (I could add more and go on but this post would be long as heck.)

[llama-of-pangea]

my tribute to the fall of vine, the thrilling conclusion

part 1/part 2/part 3/part 4

[thetrippytrip]

I can’t believe they oblitered straight men like that

[castlevanian]

@tabbran please add lemon man story to this

[tabbran]

PRESENTING LEMON MAN

[themightyglamazon]

That was a wild goddamn ride

[wereralph]

god this was worth the read

[pasteldaemon]

Oh my god this is amazing…