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.)
yknow AI art has ruined an entire genre of painting to me, i saw one of those smooth anime-realism pieces and immidiately thought ''ugh, AI art'' until i noticed it was posted by an established deviantart user 6 years ago. like ive never been a huge fan of that genre but it looks like a pretty difficult style to master and i feel bad for the artists who specialized in anime-realism only to have their entire market jacked by people typing keywords into midjourney.
So a third of my Ao3 fics just got hit by a bunch of comments accusing the fic as being written by AI.
Spent a little time feeling insulted and pouty before I double checked reddit and discovered quite a few other writers got hit with the same set of comments.
Ironically, these comments themselves are generated by AI.
Reported them as spam.
Just passing along the info in case anyone else gets hit... ignore the comment - nobody actually thinks your fic was AI generated - and report as spam.
I got complacent. It was quiet on the Bot front for about a month, so I thought Tumblr had fixed the issue.
Nope. The bots are back at it again and I’m blocking/reporting at least three daily. Which might not seem like a lot to some people, but I have a super tiny following and each new follower that turns out to be a bot just makes me more sad.
April Fool’s Day is in a few days, and I just wanted to make this clear. This blog is safe, and I can promise you no screamers, nothing emotionally abusive, no fake posts, and nothing to intentionally trigger dissociation. You are safe here.
My mom once bought me a book for school, and a whole section in the middle was upside down. Took it back to the store and the employees were as baffled by it as me and my mom were.
Sat down to start my new book and it’s got a pretty cover jacket, and a pretty hardcover…. and the wrong book inside. So, um, that’s new?