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[anneemay]

Israel just grazed the last greenhouses in Gaza. While we are getting distracted by the US election circus, this is happening

[wawawawaw6272627-deactivated202]

Here’s a link to the Arab Group of the Protection of Nature, whose goal is to revive Gaza’s farmlands and plant (and replant uprooted) olive trees in all of Palestine

[paysergraham]

[dz-4589]

don’t tell me that you’ll be giving up on reality, Samsa

[unclefather]

[kezia-kawaii]

but sir, the gecs outnumber the pilots nearly 5:1

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[memewhore]

[defendglobe]

gates to infinity text posting

[velaofftherails]

Reblog if this would work on you

[were--ralph]

100k notes and i'll @ my crush on this post

[were--ralph]

wrong. You have until august 1, 2023.

[were--ralph]

you have one week remaining.

[were--ralph]

lets maybe calm down and think about the decisions we've made

[griseldajane]

Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

[digitaldiscipline]

Art thieves already hate it:

[fierceawakening]

Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.

[spooky-octagon-deactivated20240]

The link is only in the original post inside an image, not as text, so here it is as plain text: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ and the paper about how it works: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222

[esoanem]

As links (because some of us are on mobile and can't easily copy and paste to our browser), those are:

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

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GLAZE: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models

Recent text-to-image diffusion models such as MidJourney and Stable Diffusion threaten to displace many in the professional artist community

[sliceosunshine]

A bit of a TLDR for some questions I saw in the notes:

The team that created Glaze is from the University of Chicago. Their names are each listed in full on the Glaze download website. (This group of students/professors did this for their SPRING BREAK 😱 so go give them some love lol)

It is free to download. No, they won’t ask for or raise money from/for this project.(stated by one of the lead professors of the project).

Glaze is designed to protect artists’ STYLE--which a bunch of ai people have been deliberately fine-tuning their models to mimic (and specifically of current living artists--small or big).

It currently does not protect against composition/trace-like theft (as seen when run through img-to-img) but that would be protected by copyright anyway while STYLE is not.

The University Team has stated that they are dedicated to continuing to improve the tool, like fixing bugs (like overheating older computers by taking up lots of energy when Glazing--it currently runs on CPU so they’re trying to change that to GPU, I believe) and expanding the type of protection given to artists (like working against img-to-img theft).

It currently only works directly on your computer (phones not advised due to current overheating issue, no tablets, or iPads, and no website runthrough since that would be insecure to breaches/scraping/hacks)

It currently works best on painterly artwork, but can still be used on other forms (team is working on improving this)

IT WORKS BY calculating the changes each image needs for the best protection against style theft by AI, and adds tiny changes throughout the piece, so that your style will, for example, confuse the ai into seeing van gogh. But the ai thieves will see a regular image in your style, feeding it into their model labeled as your work (thus starting the “data poisoning”).

Do not post the original unGlazed piece of your artwork after posting your Glazed version (obviously)

The Team worked directly with over 1,000 artists that were being impacted by the ai theft. Because the team listened to those artists, Glaze accounts for regular art thieves too (i.e. Glaze can’t be removed/cropped etc. like signatures or watermarks when reposted. It’s just part of the image, so even if it ends up on another site and scraped, the Glazing is still in effect)

When you run your artwork through Glaze, no information is sent back to the Team. (Aka, no scraping on their part. The app receives information from the Team (like updates) but no information from you is given to them through the app. Basically Team servers ---> You and NOT Team servers <--->You) One-way data street.

Brief misunderstanding happened over an open-source license for the front-end part of the app. (Used open-source coding for front-end, not knowing that code’s use-license states it is only for other open-source uses, not closed-source (the back-end code of the app is private to prevent counter-counter measure developments)). The Team took down the app until they replaced the front-end code with code written from scratch by the team. They are now not in violation of that open-source license since they are no longer using it. (you have 30 days to remedy a license breach once informed; they did so in 2)

The Team is currently in touch with Japanese artists to better expand the tool for use to protect their art styles

From what I understand of it, Glaze is an AI tool designed to be anti-AI (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: one Terminator robot vs. all the other Terminators 😂)

You can download it from their website and also contact them through email there with any questions, problems, or bugs. The website: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

[locus-p0cus]

reblogging this every fucking time it comes across my dash

[swaggycheese]

*Shameless slides this out on a theater stage* Hey.

Hello! As some of you probably know, my name is Cheese, and I am a small artist on Tumblr. I have been debating on this idea for over a year now and have finally decided to open commissions!!! This is my first time doing commissions so I am still very new to all of this, but I believe that this will be a good learning experience for me.

To start out, I plan on opening 3 commission slots to be available to purchase (more may open up depending on the amount of requests).

Some other things to note:

I couldn’t fit everything on that one image, but here is some extra information.

-I use PayPal (will give it out when request is made)

-I will draw most things except NSFW, heavy gore, and offensive art

-I will help you design/create OCs (price depends on the amount of time and/or details and OC may contain)

Thank you for reading this post! Even if you do not comm, I would appreciate it if you would spread the word!!!

If you have any questions or requests please DM me on here or on Discord at Cheese Biscuits#5914

[nyancrimew]

reblog if kiss girl ?

[nshue]

man fuck twitter i’m going back to da stone age what’s up yo

[doodlerh]

sorry for more gay video game people

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[bemusedlybespectacled]

it’s funny because yes, you CAN disable right click save, but it takes like an extra two seconds to get around it because of how images are displayed on websites. (technically you could also just screenshot but this gets you a real jpg)

for example, instagram has disabled right click save. here I am trying to save a picture of this girl with a pumpkin sweater, but I am thwarted by the lack of right click save!

to get around it, right click and go to “inspect” or “inspect element” (it’s called different things depending on what computer you’re using)

shimmy around the webpage code until you find the “src” bit. It will helpfully tell you when you’ve found it because the image, and only the image, will light up as if you selected it.

that source is the link to where the image is hosted on the website. click the link.

find the actual hosted image. right click on that.

check and mate.

[anarcho-red-jay]

reblogging this version so people can piss off the NFT bros better