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"How To Be That Girl" // Ryoko Kui

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Welcome to my flesh.

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PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. but you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

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PSA TO ANYONE WHO DOESNT EVEN MAKE ART, DISABLE AI DATA COLLECTION ON YOUR BLOG

ART REBLOGGED TO AN ACCOUNT WITH THIS ENABLED WILL ALLOW MIDJOURNEY TO USE THE ORIGINAL POSTERS WORKS WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT

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Please please anyone who has reblogged my art and wants to continue, i ask politely to do the ai opt out because it does NOT count reblogs if that blog hasn't done it, even if I opt out my own posts

I know it's a drop in the bucket at this point but like 😞 sighs idk anymore this is getting tiring

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"what is it like to use nightshade/glaze?"

so based on my own experience I thought I'd make this more transparent since I know a lot of people hesitate to take action on some things if they do not know Exactly what happens. it's me i'm people. So;

Nightshade takes about 30 minutes on its fastest setting. The end result tends to look like mild jpeg artifacting, very slightly creased paper, or just brush texturing. Looking at it normally, it is undetectable. Glaze is very visually similar, given the strategy, except that Glaze's longest time setting is 5 minutes.

You put in a file, select how much you want it affected and for how long you want it to render. For Nightshade, you also attach a tag to it, that way AI finds what it's looking for with an associated word. You select a folder for the final result to save to, then hit run.

It takes a lot of GPU/CPU. The fans on my laptop sound a bit like I'm running Minecraft, and it refuses to run if you have too many programs open. I could run Youtube and Nightshade at the same time, but Youtube did Not like it. Best to just take a break while you let it do its thing. Run Nightshade before you go out or something.

It does NOT like transparent png backgrounds. Makes me wonder how AI does with 'em. Anyways, running a backgroundless drawing through Glaze and Nightshade respectively makes it turn out like this:

creasing effect is more noticeable, and it adds strange blocky black and white backgrounds to it. If you want good results for your time, be that less than 1 minute or 180 minutes, consider getting rid of the transparency.

I would post a before and after picture of a Nightshaded piece but of course, I would like to post exclusively poison on this site.

As one last note, it took me a lot of effort to find where you're actually supposed to download these tools, so Glaze is here and Nightshade is here. Overall I highly recommend using them if you can. Don't let AI run you off of your sites: run the AI out yourself.

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guerilla guide to speeding the collapse of the AI bubble

glaze and nightshade your good art - and by good i mean ideally all of it, but realistically we all know that's a lot of work, and sometimes Glaze adds too much gunk to your art, so pick your favorites. Also, posting 50/50 glazed/nonglazed artworks will have a better chance of poisoning the algorithm, as sooner or later they'll have Glaze detection and will just exclude your blog if you're a known Glaze user. (Worse; Glazing your posts might get forbidden by TOS one day.)

use alt text on your unglazed art and tag it "blurry, low resolution, motion blur, deformed, text, poorly drawn, bad art, bad anatomy, bad lighting, disfigured, faded, blurred face" and similar

post awful garbage AI art while NOT tagging it as AI art, and instead apply misleading tags (hand drawn, 4k resolution) while using some kind of "wink" so your followers know this is intentionally bad AI art

if it's fun for you, draw people with three arms and 6 fingers. draw photorealistic people that with very asymmetrical features. go for the uncanny valley. make the grotesque your own.

It's only a matter of time before AI art becomes too expensive to run, and will remain the domain of bottom feeders. Good art will be in demand again one day.

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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.

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a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️‍⚧️ a short comic about looking back

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yes I'm now on the other side of top surgery and I'm allowed to lift things again 💪 You might have already seen this one on my substack -- did u know you can subscribe to my substack for early access to comics like this?! Sent directly to your email inbox??? FOR FREE????? (there is also an optional paid tier for exclusive bonus content for five bucks a month but like 80% of my posts will be free and publicly available) ty ily♥

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Do you know what its like to be trans?

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Trans Bodies are Beautiful

Yeah, wake up. It's body positivity hours.

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Happy APAHM and here’s a poem comic about my experiences being trans and Chinese I did in three days for my English class! 

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Wow! Here’s something incredibly personal.

This is Good Bi Gender. A comic I made to express some feelings I have about my gender. I don’t really have that much else to say about it. Here it is.

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the good news is this *probably* won’t actually push back my timeline for top surgery, but I still let myself have a little tantrum about it because we respect all feelings in this house