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"how do I keep my art from being scraped for AI from now on?"

if you post images online, there's no 100% guaranteed way to prevent this, and you can probably assume that there's no need to remove/edit existing content. you might contest this as a matter of data privacy and workers' rights, but you might also be looking for smaller, more immediate actions to take.

...so I made this list! I can't vouch for the effectiveness of all of these, but I wanted to compile as many options as possible so you can decide what's best for you.

Discouraging data scraping and "opting out"

robots.txt - This is a file placed in a website's home directory to "ask" web crawlers not to access certain parts of a site. If you have your own website, you can edit this yourself, or you can check which crawlers a site disallows by adding /robots.txt at the end of the URL. This article has instructions for blocking some bots that scrape data for AI.

HTML metadata - DeviantArt (i know) has proposed the "noai" and "noimageai" meta tags for opting images out of machine learning datasets, while Mojeek proposed "noml". To use all three, you'd put the following in your webpages' headers:

<meta name="robots" content="noai, noimageai, noml">

Have I Been Trained? - A tool by Spawning to search for images in the LAION-5B and LAION-400M datasets and opt your images and web domain out of future model training. Spawning claims that Stability AI and Hugging Face have agreed to respect these opt-outs. Try searching for usernames!

Kudurru - A tool by Spawning (currently a Wordpress plugin) in closed beta that purportedly blocks/redirects AI scrapers from your website. I don't know much about how this one works.

ai.txt - Similar to robots.txt. A new type of permissions file for AI training proposed by Spawning.

ArtShield Watermarker - Web-based tool to add Stable Diffusion's "invisible watermark" to images, which may cause an image to be recognized as AI-generated and excluded from data scraping and/or model training. Source available on GitHub. Doesn't seem to have updated/posted on social media since last year.

Image processing... things

these are popular now, but there seems to be some confusion regarding the goal of these tools; these aren't meant to "kill" AI art, and they won't affect existing models. they won't magically guarantee full protection, so you probably shouldn't loudly announce that you're using them to try to bait AI users into responding

Glaze - UChicago's tool to add "adversarial noise" to art to disrupt style mimicry. Devs recommend glazing pictures last. Runs on Windows and Mac (Nvidia GPU required)

WebGlaze - Free browser-based Glaze service for those who can't run Glaze locally. Request an invite by following their instructions.

Mist - Another adversarial noise tool, by Psyker Group. Runs on Windows and Linux (Nvidia GPU required) or on web with a Google Colab Notebook.

Nightshade - UChicago's tool to distort AI's recognition of features and "poison" datasets, with the goal of making it inconvenient to use images scraped without consent. The guide recommends that you do not disclose whether your art is nightshaded. Nightshade chooses a tag that's relevant to your image. You should use this word in the image's caption/alt text when you post the image online. This means the alt text will accurately describe what's in the image-- there is no reason to ever write false/mismatched alt text!!! Runs on Windows and Mac (Nvidia GPU required)

Sanative AI - Web-based "anti-AI watermark"-- maybe comparable to Glaze and Mist. I can't find much about this one except that they won a "Responsible AI Challenge" hosted by Mozilla last year.

Just Add A Regular Watermark - It doesn't take a lot of processing power to add a watermark, so why not? Try adding complexities like warping, changes in color/opacity, and blurring to make it more annoying for an AI (or human) to remove. You could even try testing your watermark against an AI watermark remover. (the privacy policy claims that they don't keep or otherwise use your images, but use your own judgment)

given that energy consumption was the focus of some AI art criticism, I'm not sure if the benefits of these GPU-intensive tools outweigh the cost, and I'd like to know more about that. in any case, I thought that people writing alt text/image descriptions more often would've been a neat side effect of Nightshade being used, so I hope to see more of that in the future, at least!

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Pin for survivors

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Miraculous ladybug character redesign/story rewrite???

Would yall be interested on listening to me ramble about my ideas for a miraculous Labybug character rewrite or redesign series. And seeing some of my designs. I've been watch MLB comic dubs for like two days straight and I need to release to get all the thoughts out of my head.

I'll be more than open to taking suggestions via asks or Dms but I wanna see if yall would be interested in listening to me ramble lol

(I'll post any works in progress on tiktok)

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A trip to Universal Studios California with my friends last year.

We were very excited to see the refurbished Jurassic World ride and knew it was a water ride so we saved for the end of the day and got absolutely drenched. best ride of the day! (I ended up changing into a new shirt i bought at the park for the rest of the night haha)

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What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

[demidruidart]

I feel kinda called out to gonna lie lol

Thank you @sammy-xxm for the tag ✨️💜✨️

@ravenconspirac3 @e-vay @anyone else who might wanna join :]

hey guys there's this really cute personality quiz here and i think it'd be a fun chain game :)

@kadethecat @biocrafthero @littlest-bugz @the-hydra-sys @anyone else who sees this!!

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*Contemplates my Fable modern au*

⭐Ask about a Fic or AU!

Here's a prompt list for your followers to send questions to your inbox about that fic or AU you've been working on!

1-- What's your fic or AU's relationship to canon?

2-- What was your inspiration for writing the fic/ creating the AU?

3-- What's the primary plot of the fic or the conceit of the AU?

4-- What genre would you consider your fic/AU to be? What elements does it borrow or share with other stories of that genre?

5-- What kind of relationship is the fic/AU centered around? Is it a romantic relationship, or something else? How does it impact the larger story?

6-- What's the mood or emotion you most like to evoke with your fic or AU? How do you try to evoke it?

7-- Imagine your fic/AU is becoming a movie. Share some casting ideas, or ideas on how you would translate the story to the big screen.

8-- Describe your fic/AU like a movie pitch.

9-- What's a major flaw one of your characters has, and how does it impact the fic/AU? Is this a flaw they have in canon, or is it new to your fic/AU?

10-- What's a major motivation one of your characters has and how does it impact the fic/AU? Is this a motivation they have in canon, or is it new to your fic/AU?

11-- What element of your fic or AU is most changed from canon? What brought this change about?

12-- What type of conflict does the fic/au rely on? (man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self, etc)

13-- What are the primary themes in the fic/AU?

14-- What's the most vivid image you associate with your fic/AU?

15-- What's a scene you like the best or are most excited for?

16-- What's a scene you are dreading or had difficulty writing?

17-- Does your fic/AU have a music playlist you associate with it?

18-- Who's your favorite character to write for your fic/AU? What about writing them is so appealing?

19-- What's an idea or image you would like your audience to get from your fic/AU?

20-- What's the strangest place or way you've gotten an idea for your fic/AU?

21-- What about your fic/AU would you like to stick with your audience after the the story?

22-- Share a snippet of your fic/AU.

23-- Give us one weird fact about your fic/AU.

24-- What's a random piece of information about your fic/AU you want to share?

25-- Share something about your fic/AU in the format of a clickbait headline.

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The Nethers Burning Star 🌟 🩷🌟

Band au Athena makeup 🩷✨️🔥

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Despite Everything it's Still You ✨️💜💛💫

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How does one express expression???

My entry into the Malitae mural art contest (I just think their neat ✨️🖤🌈)

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Void Prince

Band au Rae (Yall don't wanna know how long it took me to find a song I liked for him)

I kept getting reminded of ever after high while figuring out his color paper and I finally figured out why....

This show will haunt me forever/pos

(Anyway, I'm gonna go suffer over hw)

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A Wolf's song: Band Au Wolf design

Kinda spoiler for the latest Heyhay/Art stream

(What a time for a name reveal, huh???)

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Sky Bound smp ocs??? more likely than you think. 🤔🧡🖤

My Sky Bound smp ocs loosely based on Art's leggy lovebirds and Kiwi and his goth gf. Can you tell I'm excited about Bound smp lol

Say hello to Kiwi and Astraia Valentine 🧡💙🖤

Kiwi is a local potter and botanist, and Astraia is a tailor and seamstress

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I got a new tablet so have some !Band/modern au Rae because I think he's neat. -My quest to make Fable characters as pretty as possible continues lol-

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And if your still breathing your the Lucky ones 💙💜💛

So.... anyone else dreading Wolf and Ocie finding out about Centross because I sure am 🥺🥺🥺 (I haven't seen Art's latest stream because I've been away with no internet)

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Thanks for the tag Raven <3 I love to get to know you better too :]

Last song: Lovesong by Beabadoobee (In my soft cryptid era 💫🌺)

Favorite color: Ugh I can never pick but its between pink, green and purple (I also like, black, cream,burgundy)

Last show/movie: If Fablesmp counts then that if not Squid game the challenge (I was getting my hair done and my sister picked it 🤷🏿‍♀️)

Flavour: I got a major sweet tooth 😋

Relationship status: Single and will likely stay that way for a while lol

Last thing I googled: if jumbo yarn is the same as two sceins of regular yarn (teaching myself how to crochet)

Current obsession: Fablesmp (sibling duo breaking my heart), BG3 (Astarion beloved), Hermitcraft, etc.

Tagging: I don't have 9 people to tag but anyone can join it they'd like 💖 @connorsnothereeither @beansmakesart @turtletoria @nessypanda-art @bee-causes-havoc @idkbromyguy

Nine people I'd like to get to know better

Tagged by @meghawhopp <33

Last song: Down by the River by Borislav Slavov from the Baldur’s Gate 3 Soundtrack (or more specifically the cover of Down by the River by Nerissa Ravencroft)

Favorite color: Blue and purple!

Last movie/TV show: Seinfeld, I’m currently on season four!

Sweet/spicy/savory?: I have a huge sweet tooth, so sweet things

Relationship status: Single

Last thing I googled: I searched up the show “Arthur” because I was trying to find that one meme where Buster was like “You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and spread lies?”

Current obsession: Fragaria memories and tears of themis mostly^^

Tag Nine People: @kyaruun @xinieeee @deadmansbistro @florapot @hunita812 @scuffle-with-spirals @rexonalapis @maxellera @manicpixiedoomedgirl