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talentlesshuman

Vent art

talentlesshuman

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thankyourluckystars13

I'm really not apologetic with this hard stance, either. I'm very firm on this, too. My art has already been used, twice now by people who did not ask my permission, so they could "enhance it" with Gen AI. I really see nothing good coming from generative AI except poor excuses for laziness and glorified search engines that don't work.

iguanodonwildman

This is an important time to make the distinction between generative and analytical AI. Analytical AI is what AI is supposed to be for. It’s all the boring stuff like analyzing data for patterns. For example, you probably heard about that AI that was designed to tell apart bear claws from croissants for a bakery that is now being used to detect cancer cells with greater accuracy than human doctors. That’s an analytical AI, while everything mentioned in the post above is generative AI. (Which sucks!)

goldensunset

'do you think you're superior for not using AI in your work' thank you for asking! yes i do

prof-grace-aspen

If you (like me) want 3rd party candidates to be an actual viable option in USA elections so you no longer have to vote for Democrats OR Republicans as your first and only choice, then what we need is Ranked Choice Voting. In order for that to happen, we as voters have to do two things:

Vote Democrat this fall, because Republicans fucking hate Ranked Choice Voting, and in several Republican-run states they have outlawed it. So if you want it, you have to keep Democrats in power in your state.

Lobby for and then vote for Ranked-choice voting in your state!Many American states have already adopted Ranked Choice voting and several more are set to do so in 2024. The ball is literally already rolling on this, we just need YOU to help it along.

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

look at this fucking patent 😭

An amusement apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttoc

zahmbee

celestialmaison

And while we're talking about ai theft: turn. off. grammarly. Disable it. Delete it. Get that shit off of your computer ASAP.

I never realized how much of my shit is scanned by grammarly until today. It scans my emails, my text posts on this bewitched platform, my wips on google docs, my youtube comments--literally everything ive ever typed on my laptop is scanned by grammarly. And I've been allowing this to happen for years.

Turn. Off. Grammarly.

yukipri

Wanted to say Glaze 2.0 is AMAZING.

What took 30 mins+ before, took me THREE MINUTES last night. WITH my other programs still running.

For folks who tried Glaze but haven't been using it due to glazing time, give 2.0 a chance!

I've heard that other folks have had it taking the same time/longer, but the quality is so much better. Your settings will determine the outcome, but it's definitely a huge improvement over the initial release version.

This update was super sexy of the Glaze Project. You can download the updated version from their site HERE!

(You should also use in conjunction with Nightshade!)

07242024-deactivated20240725

i got the job

alexaloraetheris

Litany against unemployment.

halberdierminister

Look at this cool new t-shirt I made for fans of Abraham Lincoln! I made it on my own time, with my own resources, and without any affiliation to existing public or private institutions concerned with history, education, hospitality, culture or retail. You can find it at my new Threadless shop or directly at bit.ly/imissabe

op turned reblogs off but this post must live. it must live and spread malignantly .

teabree-shark

in b4 95% of all websites in june 2024 announce that "for security" they will only work with browsers that use manifest v3

470nanometers

The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

Just use Firefox.

evilsoup

The more people who use Firefox the better! It's got versions for the desktop, android, and iphone, all free. In addition to ublock origin there are thousands of addons. You could also consider using one of Mozilla's paid products, such as their VPN, or donating to the Mozilla Foundation, in order to ensure they're able to keep going.

Mozilla is the not-for-profit behind the lightning fast Firefox browser. We put people over profit to give everyone more power online.

Mozilla is a global nonprofit dedicated to keeping the Internet a global public resource that is open and accessible to all.

pikestaff

Not to be Old on main but I remember this exact thing happening in the late 90s and early 00s. I remember it very well. Microsoft pushed out all the browser competition with Internet Explorer, at which point both browser and web innovation stagnated for years because why fix something that's broken if everyone is using the broken thing anyway because there are hardly any other options. If you want to know how bad it was, Internet Explorer did not have browser tabs and it certainly did not have any sort of adblock. And everyone just lived with it.

I am watching the exact same thing happen with Chrome in real time today and that's why I always reblog these posts and sometimes am extra annoying and add on to them. I don't want to see it happen again because it sucked. Please use Firefox. Use it on mobile too (it has browser extensions!!! Including ad blockers!!!) And reminder that Edge/Brave/Vivaldi are all built on Chromium and you should not be using those either. Those browsers will show up as Chrome on tracking analytics and it does not help the overall project, which is showing web developers that Chrome is not the only browser people are using.

anotherdayforchaosfay

Your passwords and other useful things transfer to Firefox, btw. Go make the switch. You have nothing to lose.

cellarspider

Most websites that tell you they need Chrome to work are lying, even if they block you from accessing them if you're not using Chrome. They just do not want to support the dev work to optimize for anything else, or may have a special deal with Google.

Fortunately, there are Firefox extensions that just basically tell websites "yeah, I'm definitely Chrome. don't worry about it"

Download User-Agent Switcher and Manager for Firefox. Spoof websites trying to gather information about your web navigation—like your browse

Download Chameleon for Firefox. Spoof your browser profile. Includes a few privacy enhancing options. A WebExtension port of Random Agent S

Please note I have not used either of these, because adblockers and script blockers are good enough at disabling those annoying messages.

boimann

ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

zahmbii

There is a chance that Tumblr will start scraping your art and images to sell to AI companies Like Midjourney.

Important note for now: These are all speculative rumors coming from ex-tumblr employees at this point. But the important fact remains the same: You need to be Glazing AND Nightshading any and all content you upload.

Both Glaze and Nightshade are free for their desktop applications. They are developed by a team at the University of Chicago specifically with the intent of protecting artists from being scraped into AI datasets.

If your computer isn't strong enough, there is an online option called Web-Glaze you can request access for. Or, there is a new Art hosting website called Cara that has a partnership with the University of Chicago (the creators of Glaze and Nighshade) to integrate that same Web-glaze for all users to apply to anything they want to upload.

Again, there is a chance these rumors are false and this won't happen. But even if they are fake, all artists, and even just anyone uploading any image at this point, should be applying these programs to any uploaded image on the internet.

zahmbii

To add extra clarification:

GLAZE helps prevent the mimicry of a style by a generative AI if your work is scraped.

Nightshade actively harms the AI by damaging its ability to distinguish what things are. (Say: you nightshade an image of a cow, and the AI will now think this cow is a handbag instead)

Nightshade sadly doesn't have an online equivalent (yet) but if you CAN physically run it on your machine, please do. (Hopefully an online equivalent will come soon for those that can't)

darumag

You've already heard. turn it on now ( Its in your blog settings, all the way at the very bottom. You need to enable for each blog individually. It also does not appear to have a mobile equivalent to enable that i could find, only on desktop. )

@staff This is an incredibly disappointing and disheartening move, and a major blow to the trust between yourself and your own user-base.

zahmbee

@staff Why did you make multiple update announcement posts ( One and two that i found) that you were discouraging the scraping of user created works, only to sell it to the same companies anyway?

sharkface

They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

rrover

"cold unfeeling machine" don't you lie that computer is working hard as hell overheating itself for YOU. those fans are whirring fast as fuck to make YOU happy!!! you are making her cry don't you call her "cold and unfeeling" again. feel the warmth of the computer with your hands. computer love you OK?