#sorry i guess i should be more specific. glaze works but like ehhhhhh theres definitely methods the ai bros have to mitigate it | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

asaxophony · 3 months

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Legitimately confusing to still see artists and ppl recommending glaze/nightshade and acting like it's the end all be all when how effective both are is still kind of eeeeeh?

Glaze also tends to chew up and compress your images to the point ppl have to go back in and put filters over it. There also seems to be a really large misunderstanding on how Glaze functions, especially on this site.

Glaze changes a specific range of the art ran through it to be read by diffusion as a different style. Generally it's changing pixels and code within the image so ultimately it does end up changing the image, often adding visual noise in the form of swirls or giving it a crunchy compressed look. Depending on how far you run the art through Glaze it can come out looking like a badly compressed jpeg. Glaze does this using the same sort of AI tech. The end result occasionally needs to be run through filters to get it too not look shit. The ultimate goal of Glaze is if someone is training directly from your art, and it's all been ran through Glaze the person won't be able to get a solid style from it, so the images trained off of it will be off from your specific style and not able to replicate it believably. It does not prevent img2img.

Generally Glaze's adversal noise is now robust enough to not be easily edited or taken out by the ai bros, this definitely was not the case on its release. So definitely use it but just keep in mind how it functions and weigh the pros and cons of like it crunching art, and any art posted on the web has a chance of being scraped.

I've seen some arguments basically being like well its the equivalent of crunching you art down into shitty jpegs, no one is going to train off of something that looks like shit which is I think definitely like yeah art has the downside of ot having to be visually vlear and good looking g for it to function so you can ultimately only change it so much before it deviates too much from the artists original intent and vision.

#sorry i just like sometimes trawling aroind the ai bros twitter and reddit stuff is useful #sorry i guess i should be more specific. glaze works but like ehhhhhh theres definitely methods the ai bros have to mitigate it #acting as if it the end all be all is just not how we should be using it #besides tje fact it prevents EXACT style replication ive seen examples of artists training glaze vs non glaze and tbh i didnt reallt think #the difference was high enough to actually discourage use of a data set trained by it #everytime an artist on reddit is like look!!! it makes a huge difference between sets im like well to an actuallt eye trained artsit maybe #but i think the average ai idiot would still be like this looks good #idk it still makes passable images which yeah it doesnt prevent image copying its suppoze to prevent style replication which it does to an #EXTENT which is still some protection but glaze also does weird stuff to the art u put thru it #idk im just not super sold on it and i really dislike how the art community is acting like its their savior its def a step in tje right #direction sure but i think legislation (which isnt going to happen lol) is the only surefire way to fight the ai stealing #i personally dont use it just bc i dont post a huge amount of art anyway and like eh #i think its ultimately more useful to ppl with a large gallery of a distinct and visually appealing style #in which someone might legitimately train a set over

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