#artshield

[ariakey]

Protect your art <3

ArtShield

Protect your art from AI.

In case you can't use Glaze or Nightshade this is pretty quick and free and also doesn't leave a texture on your pieces! give it a try!

[mana-sputachu]

Artshield

I was going to flop in bed and try to draw from there, but the sudden swarm of AI shit on another of my accounts fueled me with spite, so I'm writing this post NOW rather than tomorrow when I'll be more awake.

If you can't run Glaze/Nightshade because of the insane specs required for it, give a try to Artshield.

It's a web-based app that will let you load all the pics you want and protect them with a big, invisible watermark all over it. It also has a checker option to use after you've shielded your art, to be sure it worked.

Now, I'm terrible with math so I can't explain how it exactly work, but here's the explanation on their blog. If someone who's more math-savvy than me wants to add a simpler explanation to this post, please do!

While it can't poison AIs like Nightshade does, it's still a good solution if you can't run Glaze/Nightshade on your pc... like many of us, really. As I wrote on another post about Glaze, I have a pretty decent gaming pc that, while not being like high-end or anything (my GPU is a RTX 3060), suits my needs perfectly and runs all the games I'm interested in (Tekken 8's demo being the most recent thing).

Yet, in order to try Nightshade, I had to close all the apps I had running in the background, which were, in that moment, Opera and Discord. Only when I shut them down, it finally started. 10 minutes for the mid setting and the result was awful.

I tried WebGlaze (not Cara yet), and the results were also awful, given you can't control the strenght of the glazing much.

I understand it might be hard to develop this kind of technology, but I wish they would meet us halfway since the majority of people use old machines, laptops (a friend of mine tried running Glaze on hers and the fans started spinning like it was ready to fly) or even just tablets and phones, so those specs are hard to meet.

That's why I want to share Artshield, as a solution for those of you who can't run Glaze and Nightshade.

Artshield's only big limitation is that it won't work with white backgrounds, so try to add a color layer to your white background before shielding it. Same for B/W images.

Other tips I can suggest for trying to protect your works:

Post at the lowest resolution you can: I go for 72 DPI, keeping bigger sizes and high quality files only for Ko-Fi rewards and clients' files

Add a noise filter: I always do this because I like the paper-like, grainy feel it gives to my art, but I read once it might messes with AI's scrapers. While I don't know if this is still true, it's worth trying it

Don't forget a big visible watermark (aside from the Artshield one)!

Hope this will help other strugglin artists, I never see Artshield suggested around, especially in posts about Glaze and Nightshade, so I decided to write this one.

Go and shield your art!

[atlaslovesedm]

found out about this alternative to glaze/nightshade...

ArtShield

Protect your art from AI.

basically how it works is:

it adds a watermark (invisible to the human eye) to your art that pretty much camouflages it among the ai's bullshit

robots may ignore your art as they scrape the internet for images

even if your art does get scraped, ai image generators may double-check for watermarked images and exclude them from final training data

(all of this was paraphrased from the actual website)

so yea it definitely works differently (and it seems a bit less secure) but if glaze or nightshade wont work for you (they dont work for me) this is probably one of the best alternatives out there

i tried it on this panel i made for a "with lyrics" for a mother's love (shameless promo ooooo) that i never posted, and honest to god it looks near identical outside of some color changes and slight artifacts but you'd have to look REALLY closely to notice

so yea program good definitely gonna b using it

[skelleste]

Did a Bob Ross paint-along with friends and this is as polished as I could get within the time it takes for the episode to end. I'm also going to try using ArtShield on some images here and there.

[thunderremix8]

Happy Birthday @priestly-prince! Hope you're bringing in the new year with your nearest and dearest!

I swear they were supposed to be wearing clothes but circumstances happened*

[chawmpie-n-freindz]

Chawmpie has a gift for you!

It's ArtShield! Are you an artist that wants to protect your art from AI on social media, but can't use Nightshade or Glaze? Well, ArtShield has you covered!

ArtShield creates an invisible watermark on your art that stops AI from stealing it. It's quick, easy, and can be used on mobile!

Click here to check it out!

(this art is satire and is bad on purpose so AI scrapes dog ass art. For my real art go to frostbitedoesart)

[silurisanguine]

Aeryn Ryder portrait - Enhanced edition

I decided to do more work on my portrait study of my Pathfinder from my fics - The Hidden King upon his mountain and Tales from Kadara, as the original one kept being mistaken for a screenshot. So hopefully this looks more like an actual painting they both are.

I decided to give her what I think she'd definitely wear off duty. A fitted racerback purple top with slouchy sweater over the top. (bottom half would probably be leggings or lounge pants. I never liked the special edition casual outfit they gave Ryder, so this is what she wears! The Nebula was so much fun to paint, I now have it as a wallpaper! Aeryn's eyes were also so much fun, she has the most intense green cat like eyes, no wonder Reyes fell for her! Closeup below the cut

[skellabelle]

I’m seeing so many people posting about glaze and nightshade and webglaze all being difficult to access and how frustrating that is which is valid!!

The answer is Cara!!! They partnered with Glaze and have their own web browser for running it and it doesn’t require jumping through hoops to gain access like WebGlaze. all you need is to make an account and BAM you have access. The one drawback is that they don’t have the bandwith to do it quickly so it can take a couple hours, but it doesn’t kill your computer to do so!

Here’s the link and i wish you all a happy glazing and ai ruining❤️

Also to opt out of tumblr forking over your content to train ai, you have to scroll past settings down to the bottom and click Visibility. It took me ages to find it as all the posts i found saying where to find it said it was in blog settings. Kinda feels like they’re intentionally making it hard to find…