#protect art

[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!

[arcthie]

I'm very happy with the new genre of movies we're having. Learning to have hope and empathy, to believe in the power of love and friendship (Superman and Project Hail Mary)

But also the horrors of humanity, the ugly and raw side of us that we only allow to show when we have nothing else to lose. The part we hide away until we bleed (Iron Lung and The Drama) I'm very uncomfortable. I hated it, but I loved it

[cluz1babe]

Artists, you can “Poison” your art to mess with AI!

This new tool lets artists ‘poison’ their artwork to deter AI companies from using it to train their models—here’s how it works

“It’s called ‘Nightshade’ and was developed by a team of researchers at the University of Chicago. It works by “poisoning” an artist’s creation by subtly changing the pixels of the image so that AI models aren’t able to accurately determine what the image is depicting, according to MIT Technology Review.”

“While the human eye isn’t able to detect these small changes, they aim to cause a machine-learning model to mislabel the picture as something other than what it is. Since these AI models rely on accurate data, this ‘poisoning’ process would essentially render the image useless for the purposes of training.

If enough of these ‘poisoned’ images are scraped from the web and used to train an AI image generator, the AI model itself may no longer be able to produce accurate images.”

“Artists who post their own art online should ideally have both Glaze AND Nightshade applied to their artwork.”

“Glaze is a defensive tool that individual artists can use to protect themselves against style mimicry attacks, while Nightshade is an offensive tool that artists can use as a group to disrupt models that scrape their images without consent (thus protecting all artists against these models). Glaze should be used on every piece of artwork artists post online to protect themselves, while Nightshade is an entirely optional feature that can be used to deter unscrupulous model trainers.”

Nightshade

Glaze

[beloved13579]

PRESERVE ART!!

https://gofund.me/361f25a44

[faragonreblogs]

​If We Don’t Get Your Help Now, It’s Game Over

The actors who breathe life into the video games you love are facing an existential threat. After more than 18 months of negotiations, emplo

Only 300 more signatures!

[lauravanarendonkbaugh]

Nightshade

Guys, this is really easy. I just ran my first render on Nightshade, and it's very simple to use.

What is Nightshade?

It's software to "poison" the AI image-"generating" models which scrape your art without permission. It works by telling the AI software that this car is really a cow, or something similarly improbable, so that someone using that scraped art to "generate" a car will get a cow instead. This makes stealing art dangerous and costly and ineffective.

Thieving tech-bro: "That's so mean! They're poisoning our data!"

Hey, you know the absolutely guaranteed way to make sure you don't eat brownies full of laxatives? Don't steal brownies out of someone else's lunch in the break room fridge. This will only poison data that's stolen. Be ethical, be unaffected.

Download Nightshade here.

How To Use Nightshade

First, you can choose how intense to make the poison. :D It does increase render time, but that's okay, we know wars aren't won in a moment.

You can specify a tag for your primary image content ("fire," "rabbit," "forest," etc.) to establish content for the scrapers, and it reminds you to use this tag in the alt text and description, and in the post, for maximum impact.

Nightshade takes a while to download and then again to update libraries on first open, but that's a one-time thing. And then it takes a while to render, but again, we are here to preserve art and save the internet, so I can wait a bit to post.

And the output quality is good! Allegedly there are some image effects, but I'm not good enough to spot the difference when I have the before and after together.

Tips:

The guide says to run Nightshade last, after resizing, watermarking, etc. This will be most effective.

Do Nightshade before Glaze, if you choose to do both.

Render in PNG for best results but it's okay to convert to JPG after.

Remember to use your content tag in alt test, description, and your post! This is exactly where you'd be putting accessibility text anyway, so it's good practice with or without Nightshade.

Please share, please protect!

Note: I'm not an artist, I'm a writer, but I'm using Nightshade on promo images I'm putting together for a future project, because those software companies didn't buy that stock art either and I won't make it available to them for free on the license I purchased.

Please share, please protect!

(Now, speaking as a writer, I wish we had something similar for text!)

[transcendragon]

Senator Lee Introduces SCREEN Act for 119th Congress to Protect Children from Pornography Online

Senator Mike Lee has introduced the Shielding Children's Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act, a step toward safeguarding

This is backed by the heritage foundation. They openly consider any LGBTQ+ works inappropriate. They openly call the memoir “Genderqueer” horrible things. It can and likely will be used to censor anything they disagree with politically. If you live in the US and have ever claimed to care about free speech or censorship, then it’s time to stand up. Call your elected officials, spread the word, and push back.

Think about the media you like. Books, comics, YouTube, fanfic, whatever - do you want to have to report your demographics to the government every time you access it? Do you want it to face removal or for creators to be criminalized? Many different things will be at risk. We have to push against this law and every law like it that they try to pass.

[emeraldgreenfrog]

i just saw this on Pinterest and the art style looked *real* familiar to one of you talents out here on tumblr.

i sadly can’t find a watermark

does anyone know which creator made this art? Cause I am not sure if they are fine with their art being reposted without consent..

Thanks for the help