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So, you may have heard that Tumblr is using people’s art to train AI. It does this by taking any images people upload, and... – @proxy303 on Tumblr
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Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?
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FUCK YOU AI WRITING I HATE YOU AI WRITING
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 2 months
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Nightshade
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Guys, this is really easy. I just ran my first render on Nightshade, and it's very simple to use.
What is Nightshade?
It's software to "poison" the AI image-"generating" models which scrape your art without permission. It works by telling the AI software that this car is really a cow, or something similarly improbable, so that someone using that scraped art to "generate" a car will get a cow instead. This makes stealing art dangerous and costly and ineffective.
Thieving tech-bro: "That's so mean! They're poisoning our data!"
Hey, you know the absolutely guaranteed way to make sure you don't eat brownies full of laxatives? Don't steal brownies out of someone else's lunch in the break room fridge. This will only poison data that's stolen. Be ethical, be unaffected.
Download Nightshade here.
How To Use Nightshade
First, you can choose how intense to make the poison. :D It does increase render time, but that's okay, we know wars aren't won in a moment.
You can specify a tag for your primary image content ("fire," "rabbit," "forest," etc.) to establish content for the scrapers, and it reminds you to use this tag in the alt text and description, and in the post, for maximum impact.
Nightshade takes a while to download and then again to update libraries on first open, but that's a one-time thing. And then it takes a while to render, but again, we are here to preserve art and save the internet, so I can wait a bit to post.
And the output quality is good! Allegedly there are some image effects, but I'm not good enough to spot the difference when I have the before and after together.
Tips:
The guide says to run Nightshade last, after resizing, watermarking, etc. This will be most effective.
Do Nightshade before Glaze, if you choose to do both.
Render in PNG for best results but it's okay to convert to JPG after.
Remember to use your content tag in alt test, description, and your post! This is exactly where you'd be putting accessibility text anyway, so it's good practice with or without Nightshade.
Please share, please protect!
Note: I'm not an artist, I'm a writer, but I'm using Nightshade on promo images I'm putting together for a future project, because those software companies didn't buy that stock art either and I won't make it available to them for free on the license I purchased.
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Please share, please protect!
(Now, speaking as a writer, I wish we had something similar for text!)
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 2 months
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With this whole AI thing on Tumblr, I’ve been thinking about what to do.
I’ve decided I don’t want to leave. Pretty much no place on the internet is safe at this point, other than new, small apps where you won’t get much engagement. So, I want to stay on Tumblr. But I won’t post my writing anymore, since I can’t protect text like I can protect images with Glaze and Nightshade.
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 2 months
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hey let's all do this on March 15th. on the website.
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Hey don’t just like. Reblog.
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 2 months
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ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR
since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it
here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:
Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)
Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)
Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)
Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 2 months
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From instructions on how to opt out, look at the official staff post on the topic. It also gives more information on Tumblr's new policies. If you are opting out, remember to opt out each separate blog individually.
Please reblog this post, so it will get more votes!
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 2 months
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ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR
since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it
here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:
Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)
Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)
Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)
Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 3 months
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 5 months
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this is a PSA for fic writers who haven't updated in a while :
there are fics out there I'm subscribed to that have gone double digit months without updating.
rest assured the moment those babies catapult an AO3 email my way i'm dropping from the face of the earth to sink my teeth into them
i'll wait, and so will your readers
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 6 months
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So apparently some people new to Tumblr think a repost and a reblog are the same thing, so when they see creators asking for people to not repost, they're thinking the creators are saying to not reblog 😭
Y'all, a repost is when you copy/download the work and create a new post using the work making it seem as if it's yours. A reblog is you using a site provided feature to share the creator's post directly from the creator so that it's still credited to them and they still get all of the traction/notes from the work.
Please, reblog fics/art/etc. that you enjoy! Reblogging is not reposting! Creatives need support too, and reblogging is a way to do that!
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 6 months
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I hope you understand how fucking discouraging this is.
You see this? These are all fandom posts, not even OC content.
I don't mean to guilt trip anyone when I say people should reblog art or else (and when I say art I don't mean only illustrations, writers, gift makers and any other kind of artist deserve recognition too). We, as artists, produce because it gives us something, but we also share, and seeing these numbers is MADDENING.
Likes don't do anything.
You see those reblogs? They're mostly self-reblogs to promote content.
I beg you, if you like a post, don't just LIKE IT, don't only hit the heart, REBLOG IT.
It's heartbreaking seeing a piece you've spent hours working on getting dismissed like that.
SHARE ART
REBLOG POSTS
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 6 months
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REBLOG FOR BIGGER SAMPLE SIZE BC IK YALL MOSTLY GOING FOR VAMPIRE AROUND HERE
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 6 months
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Fam, if someone tells you "nobody's gonna read your fic because it has OCs in it" you have my express permission to kick their teeth in.
Because Hi! Hello! ∠( ᐛ 」∠)_
I'm nobody apparently! How's it going?
Anyway, fuck that loser, we're going to OC-land!
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 6 months
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[OC X CANON APPRECIATION POST! 🩷✨]
REBLOG IF YOU LOVE AND SUPPORT OC X CANON!!
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drabbles-blurbs-words · 7 months
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Please, for the love of god, please don’t be this person. No matter how long it’s been since an update, no matter how many unfinished stories are sitting on their account, no matter what - do not be this person.
Not only is it insanely rude, but you also do more damage than you think be being such a self-entitled ass about something someone created for free and for fun. “This author” can see what you say.
RIP decency indeed.
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