What are your thots on this Glaze program some artists are using? Alsoz do you happen to know how it works 🤔 im personally curious as to what its actually doing, if anything. Seems a bit grifty to me offhand, tbh
Near as I can tell glaze works like a lot of invisible watermark systems by adding subtle noise to the image that is supposedly unnoticeable to humans but will disrupt the attempt to train on an image by changing how the image turns from coherence into noise in the learning process.
I'm not an expert in that aspect of the process, but I am an expert on image editing, and I have strong doubts about whether anything like Glaze can work. I know a half dozen ways off the top of my head to alter every pixel in an image without noticeably changing the overall image, most of them easily automated via simple macro.
I won't say its a scam (they aren't taking money, so suspicion is lessened. They might be trying to get bought out by a big tech firm, but at first glance they seem to be sincere), but it don't expect it would take much for a scraping system to be made to recognize Glazed images, apply a counter-filtering, and re-process the image. It might stop some beginner-types who are training their own Dreambooth models on specific artists they like.
Anyone even mildly determined will likely find a workaround, and everything prior to this point, and at this point, most of your dataset revisions for your major image-gen AIs are around expanding what things the AI can replicate more than styles.
Art styles aren't that unique, they're 99.99% blends of styles the artist likes, usually heavily influenced by the aesthetics they found most appealing in their early teens. That stuff, for the current generation, is all in LIAON-5B already. You just have to find the right combination of prompting choices and you can get something close enough to most styles, even if the specific AI isn't trained on that artist's work.
TL:DR: I'm skeptical of its efficacy.
