The Glaze Anti-AI tool for artists
Since Glaze was just released, I figured I should give it a test run and let you all know how it goes.
This tool is specifically designed to thwart generative AI attempts to mimic art styles. Link to the tool: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/index.html
Before:
After:
Now, it did warn me that due to the settings I used, this image might not have adequate protection:
Takeaways:
It did mess with my watermark on the existing image, so I'd run it on an un-watermarked version and add the watermark afterward.
The glaze effect is most noticeable on areas with large blocks of the same color/flat colors. They admit to this on their website, in the Risks and Limitations section of the "What is Glaze" page.
I appreciate that it warns you when there's not enough protection.
This actually took a long time to glaze; it was about an hour at these settings. However, I was also using Google Chrome, Discord, and Spotify at the time. When I closed my other programs, it sped up significantly. I do not recommend running this on a mobile device.
This tool is still being developed, and improvements are underway.
It really sucks that we must resort to this, but we gotta do what we can to protect our work. Overall, this tool is extremely promising. I'm definitely willing to use it.