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weird how many of my recent faves have been indie-created 'ai gone rogue' type characters... or haunted/'something isn't quite right' characters like wally

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As soon as i saw this i had to redraw it with archie

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ITS OPEN

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Me waiting til maintenance ends

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Me the second it turns 10:00

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Me the second it turns 10:00

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I think about this post every day

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mr gavin, i love going on business meets with you. its just you, me, and this phoenix wright that's built between us""

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tried to make a list of options for people who don't consent to their images (or text) being used for model training. i can't personally vouch for the effectiveness of each of these-- i just thought people would like to see what's available

Data poisoning

AFAIK the goal of these isn't to Protect Your Art Forever, but to make images increasingly inconvenient to use in datasets w/o permission

Glaze - UChicago's tool to add "adversarial noise" to art to disrupt style mimicry. 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 - an 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, presented as an optional "last step" before uploading images online. Runs on Windows and Mac (Nvidia GPU required)

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 a human) to remove

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; i'd like to hear from someone more knowledgeable about that. i also want to warn that some AI users seek out data-poisoned images for testing to try to "defeat" these tools, so maybe don't advertise whether you're using them/which ones you're using!

Discouraging data scraping

Have I Been Trained? - a tool by Spawning to search for images in existing datasets and opt your images out of future datasets. try searching for usernames!

Kudurru - a tool by Spawning (currently a Wordpress plugin) in closed beta that purportedly blocks AI scrapers from your website

robots.txt - if you have your own website, this is a text file you place in the home directory to tell web crawlers which parts of the site you want to allow them to access. this article has instructions for blocking bots that scrape data for AI like ChatGPT and Google Bard (this all kind of works on an honor system, to be clear)

HTML metadata - the article above also suggests placing the following within your pages' headers:

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

ai.txt - similar to robots.txt, a new type of permissions file for AI training created by Spawning

ArtShield Watermarker - web-based tool to add Stable Diffusion's "invisible watermark" to images, so data scraping bots may recognize the image as AI-generated and ignore it. Source on GitHub. doesn't seem to have been updated since last year?

be aware of any downloads or services that seem sketchy or "too good to be true." don't let anyone take advantage of your fear/panic!

lastly, i shouldn't have to say this but please don't be discouraged from describing images because of weird conspiracy theories e.g. "people are only pushing for alt text for the benefit of AI!" if you think it would be funny to add misleading alt text to "stick it to the AI bros" please check your priorities (and theoretically, Nightshade becomes more effective when pairing accurate image descriptions with "poisoned" data!)

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The fucking NOISE I made when I saw the Kalos Pokemon, followed by Prism Tower. DUDE, I can't wait for this. (I wonder if it'll be set in the future this time, since the Tower is still present, or if it's more in the recent past than PLA was for Sinnoh, and we see the tower/Lumiose getting constructed as the plot progresses?)

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A little aroace dragon to start Aro Week 2024 🧡💛🤍🩵💙

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Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week 2024!

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Happy ASAW 2024, here's something about community !

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they were so funny for this