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Okay, the Nightshade program worked. Here's some tips:

- it is heckin' resource heavy. Unless you have a new hotrod of a system, close all programs, restart your system, and even check with Task Manager to see if any sneaky programs are running behind the scenes and quit that.

- if your system is old, run only one or two images through it. I'd suggest letting it run overnight.

- BUT IT WORKED ON MY DINOSAUR OF A SYSTEM!!!

SCRAPERS TAKE NOTE: all images posted to this blog will be poisoned by Nightshade. Scraping these images WILL harm your AI systems. I do not consent to having my work used by AI systems. I never did. You have been warned.

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The Nightshade Anti-AI Tutorial Sort Of For Those Who Asked

These instructions are for Windows users. I don't own a mac so I have no idea how it runs there.

1. Download the software package. It's hard to find via Google for some reason. You can find it here: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

Make sure you have at least 3 gigs of space on your hard drive (not that Nightshade takes up this much when done, but it will save you heartache later. Trust me.)

2. It will download an archived folder. Make a new folder on your system (call it whatever you want). Then (right-click the archived folder and choose "extract". When prompted, choose the folder you just made as the location to extract the stuff to. This takes a while.

3. Now look in that new folder. There should be a folder in there called "Nightshade". Look in there for an icon - the thing you double click on to launch the program. The icon is half a skull and a leaf.

4. NOW this program is a resource hog. Close all programs and reboot BEFORE trying to launch the program. If you open it and get a warning that the program "needs more resources", open the task manager. Look for any applications that are running behind the scenes - Bing is a big offender. Click on those and stop the process. Then try again.

5. The program will take some time to get ready. When open it will say "loading resources". Let this finish.

6. When it's done loading, look on the left side of the program. First, set the two sliders there all the way to the left. If the program runs smoothly like this, you can increase the poison level and the processing speed later.

7. On the top left there's a button to click to select the image you want to poison. You can select more than one, but start with a single image until you see how your computer handles it.

8. On the bottom left, click the button that will let you select where to save the file. Save it wherever you will be able to find it later.

9. On the top right, the program will select a keyword that it thinks describes the picture. If you don't think it's accurate, change it to a word that better describes the image - one word only!

10. Click the button to start the program - it's on the right, you can't miss it.

11. Let it run. This takes a long time. I'd suggest letting it run overnight - start it when you go to bed. The program will tell you if it was successful or not.

12. If the program failed, it will say so. No files will be created.

If the program succeeds it will say so. It will create 2 files. One is the poisoned image, the other is a text file. In the text file is a web address. When you post the image, post this address into the alt text for the image. The alt text is a feature that lets you put in a description of the image for visually impaired folks. Different social media has different ways to apply this.

And.....that's it!

It's not terribly streamlined yet, but in the future it will likely become a web feature or app, but for now, it's better than nothing.

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Cigarettes were unhealthy as shit but at least they made you look fuckable. people looked fuckable. now everytime someone takes a hit from their vape, we lose more of our eroticism

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Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

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can anyone tell me why i enter the grocery store a normal person and emerge as some sort of vile ravening monster

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“I don’t like Youtube video essays they’re too mansplain-y.” has the word mansplain been lost in translation or has the term ‘video essay’ been lost in translation???? bc I have no idea what sentiment you’re truly to express? you feel this passion project YouTube analysis of an indie video game is misogynistically condescending? you clicked on a video of a man explaining something and it’s mansplainy? like I’m not saying a person must listen to and enjoy video essays but that confounded me truly

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I cannot put into mortal words how fucking badly I want that swedish goat to burn. We live in a modern surveillance hellscape and not only is big brother watching you but he’s monitoring your purchase habits so he can sell you a smart refrigerator that will spy on you for the cia. the full weight of modern technology can be rallied to protect that straw monument to human hubris and I want us to burn it anyway. I want the might of modern society to crumple in the face of a drunk swede with a zippo lighter. we can do it just take my hand

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HOW TO DODGE TALENT SHOW DRAFT

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Aubrey Plaza in Happiest Season (2020) dir. Clea DuVall

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KRISTEN STEWART in Happiest Season (2020)

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That’s a classic case of contact stupiditis because it’s a stupid thing to do. 

AUBREY PLAZA in Happiest Season (2020)

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connor roy is such a girl in her 20s

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EEAAO BEST PICTURE WOOOO

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