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glazing your art doesnt do anything a 1% blur gets rid of the effect + all your shit was already stolen 3 years ago

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the darling Glaze “anti-ai” watermarking system is a grift that stole code/violated GPL license (that the creator admits to). It uses the same exact technology as Stable Diffusion. It’s not going to protect you from LORAs (smaller models that imitate a certain style, character, or concept)

An invisible watermark is never going to work. “De-glazing” training images is as easy as running it through a denoising upscaler. If someone really wanted to make a LORA of your art, Glaze and Nightshade are not going to stop them.

If you really want to protect your art from being used as positive training data, use a proper, obnoxious watermark, with your username/website, with “do not use” plastered everywhere. Then, at the very least, it’ll be used as a negative training image instead (telling the model “don’t imitate this”).

There is never a guarantee your art hasn’t been scraped and used to train a model. Training sets aren’t commonly public. Once you share your art online, you don’t know every person who has seen it, saved it, or drawn inspiration from it. Similarly, you can’t name every influence and inspiration that has affected your art.

I suggest that anti-AI art people get used to the fact that sharing art means letting go of the fear of being copied. Nothing is truly original. Artists have always copied each other, and now programmers copy artists.

Capitalists, meanwhile, are excited that they can pay less for “less labor”. Automation and technology is an excuse to undermine and cheapen human labor—if you work in the entertainment industry, it’s adapt AI, quicken your workflow, or lose your job because you’re less productive. This is not a new phenomenon.

You should be mad at management. You should unionize and demand that your labor is compensated fairly.

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i agree that it’s shitty to give people’s data to “AI” companies without their explicit consent, but also i feel like people are blowing the consequences of it out of proportion, or at least focusing on the wrong problem. posting any kind of art online has always opened you up to the possibility of real people stealing your shit, and that’s a hundred times more damaging to you, personally, than whatever slop a machine could algorithmically generate using data combed from countless different sources. the actual dangers of “AI” — such as creative jobs being replaced by machines — are highly systemic and tied into the capitalist hellscape we live under, and flattening that into individualist struggles concerning “plagiarism” is counterproductive and distracts from addressing the real issues in an actual material way.

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Ppl: “Glaze and nightshade all your art!!”

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.

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Do you think they take requests?

Happy holidays, @the-writing-artist! I was your @codesecretsanta this year! I thought Aelita and Yumi could enjoy some jam time.

[image description] a colored digital illustration of Aelita and Yumi from Code Lyoko; Aelita is crouched, sitting on the floor in her pajamas, programming a digital mixer while Yumi stands beside her holding an electric guitar that is held aloft by a shoulder strap; both of them are smiling [end of image description]

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[image description] a Tweet and reply from bunbun 🏳️‍🌈 @rabbitfolly on Twitter that reads: Holy frick!? Etsy changed their terms so that its users are not allowed to participate in class action lawsuits against them. You have until Aug 23 to opt out […] Please spread the word! Opting out is easy (it's just sending a simple email). By adding this clause under the radar and giving folks insufficient time to opt out, corporations are making it more difficult for class action lawsuits to hold up against them. [end of image description]

The original Tweet includes the following link to a page on indiesellersguild.org [link] where users can read all of the comprehensive information on this issue.

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hello! with queer pride month ending and disability pride month beginning, i recently re-listed my print-it-yourself edition of the queer flowers zine i made prior to the pandemic. if anyone wants to buy and download it, you can print as many as you like. it really helps me out as a queer, physically disabled person to get a little bit of money for the monthly bus pass i use to get to/from work and being able to do my laundry these days... and you can get it on my etsy!

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Reference for art fight of my OC, Wylla (she/her, xe/xer, xe/xem, or xe/xir)

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Parts of a commission I fulfilled for a fellow Colossus-enjoyer 💾

[image description] a full-color bust portrait of a humanoid person, resembling a fare-skinned man with short, dark hair and blue eyes; he wears a light-colored button-down shirt, undone at the top, and has a neutral expression on his face, eyes looking off to the left of the frame of the image, as if thinking; illuminating him against a dark blue background is a warm-colored spotlight that is yellow and orange in hue [end of image description]

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Happy mathematical birthday, Finn and Fern!

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Please take my white ass to anor londo

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fern, my boy

[image description] a four-part comic consisting of digitally-colored pen drawings. The first image features two panels, Finn and Jake talking to each other in the tree house. Jake says, "Hey Finn," Finn replies, "Yeah, Jake," and Jake answers, "we gotta find a better chore for Fern, dude." Finn says, "but Fern likes egg-fetchin'" and Jake responds, "Nah, man, I think Fern just thinks he likes chicken duty." The next panel shows Fern, outside, holding an egg in each hand while a chicken pecks at his left ankle. He has a fretful expression on his face. Jake says, "they think he's food, bro," Finn replies, "oh dink," and Jake adds, "the hens keep pecking him, it's stressin' me out." The next panel shows Fern hanging some laundry on a clothes line, smiling. The final panel shows Jake and Finn on either side of Fern. Jake holds a pink t-shirt and says, "grass smell" while Fern smiles, excitedly, holding a pair of tube socks, and Finn says "mm" while holding his shirt collar to his face with a pleased expression. [end of image description]

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here's the front-page graphic i made for my NeoCities site, Robot.Florist (click for higher quality)

[image description] a black and white digital line drawing of an urban, mid-century florists' shop as it would be seen from the street. There are potted plants and bouquets of flowers in crates and on stands on the sidewalk outside the shop. The sign on the outside of the florists' shop consists of the word "Robot" in cursive letters paired with a graffiti tag that says "Florist" above a faded banner that faintly reads "Flowers, Houseplants, Café". The brick building connected to the florists' shop has a striped, rounded awning above a faded sign that says "Asexual Computer Repair and Internet Café"; the corrugated metal fence in front of this side of the building has a large, faded graffiti tag painted onto it that says "Robot Rights". Affixed to a busted stoplight on the curb in front of the florists' shop is a sign that says "All robots are welcome here. Hatred is not". There are electric utility poles and lines in the background of this combined building [end of image description]

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[image description] a colored and shaded digital illustration of Ganymede Lewis, a person with fare skin, jawline-length wavy, brown hair, and dark eyes staring directly at the viewer with a neutral but intense expression. They wear a green utility jacket and a brown leather falconer's glove on their left hand, where a speckled brown and gold hawk is landing. Their face is flushed and dotted with freckles [end of image description]

[the final 3.5 minutes of “i know the end” by phoebe bridgers plays loudly in the distance]

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happy HALentines day :D

this is such a cute message... hal-entine's day?! you are so sweet. and you inspired me, so here's a hal 🤍

[image description] a digital illustration of one of Hal's camera panels against a plain black background surrounded by pink, purple, red, and orange sticky notes shaped like hearts, a cloud, squares, and rectangles; the messages written on the sticky notes read: "thank you for everything you do :)", "love you!", "you're a super star Hal!", "you are stellar!", "happy HAL-entine's day!!", "happy Valentine's day, Hal! - Frank", "Hal, UR out of this world!", "over the moon for you!", and "we <3 you :]". [end of image description]

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i had some fun in ms paint drawing this little guy

[image description] pixel art depicting a blue-skinned alien-person in a white astronaut's suit and a bubble-style helmet, floating in space while tethered; the arm of its space suit is adorned by the 9-stripe rainbow pride flag. Each glove of its space suit has four fingers. The alien has a spherical head, a pair of black eyes, and possesses no other facial features [end of image description]

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[image description] a black and white shaded digital sketch of The Familiar, a young person with pale skin covered in freckled markings and bushy, white, wavy hair. They are sleeping on the floor, curled in a comfortable fetal position. They are surrounded by four Garfield plushies, which are all shaded with a single shade of pale orange [end of image description]

darcy edwards’ ward and familiar really likes garfield the cat