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a kinetic sculpture by Tim Lewis

I know it’s not pottery but it is sculptural and holy shit

it’s beautiful and disturbing and I feel like I could stumble across this creature in a forest and never be seen again???

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Fanart for the fic “The Chips Didn’t Work” by @jedi-order-apologist​!

This fic is so wonderful, go read it :) 

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Do you ever wonder what happened to the weird girl from your middle school?

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same energy

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i'm sorry (not) to people who know me irl

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A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

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Had to express this somehow

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he is Finished and I Love Him. behold, Nova, The Other Daycare Attendant. He is allergic to wearing his slippers unless he's outside of the Daycare. He'll steal your blankets and make a blanket fort if you ask, but on the condition he gets to chill in there with you. He's a good egg and has never done anything wrong ever in his life c:

also if someone decides to scrape this to upload to Pinterest, I can't stop you but at least give credit yeah? I'm active on there and I Will see it

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so i finally decided to use my tablet for its intended purpose when i bought it

drawing

who knew ruffles were so fucking difficult to draw when ur brain ram is taken up with Loving The Nova

okay okay I know this is/was a destiny blog and i know I haven't posted literally anything in way too long other than reblogs but i have to be cringe for like 5 minutes because somehow i got brainrot for fnaf but Specifically for Sun and Moon and i-

i made my own one-

oops all Novas say hello to Nova he's tired but he's doing his Best

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okay okay I know this is/was a destiny blog and i know I haven't posted literally anything in way too long other than reblogs but i have to be cringe for like 5 minutes because somehow i got brainrot for fnaf but Specifically for Sun and Moon and i-

i made my own one-

oops all Novas say hello to Nova he's tired but he's doing his Best

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HOLY SHIT WHAT???

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Today's Adventure is that I, after an unintentional 13-hour power nap,

Got woken up at 6AM by a phone call from a friend stranded in Montana because of the heat wave and almost no cell service because of their crap provider.

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Ok.

I somehow summon a week's worth of spoons and in less than 30 minutes and 5 phone calls, get them

A hotel

An appointment with a mechanic from 2 states away

A perscription refilled from 2 states away

and A Pizza

Go me.

But then it's 8AM and there are unscheduled live humans at the door and while EVERGENCY MODE is still on, I have already blown through a ton of spoons, and also probably shouldn't meet whoever it is wearing just a pair of bootyshorts that say "CRYPTID" in Gothic Font on my ass.

So I greet them in those shorts and a T-shirt that I manage to put on both inside out and backwards

#nailedit

It is, Fortunately, not the mormons.

it is, Unfortunately, two UPS guys trying to deliver my other in-house friend's new phone except the new guy doesn't know how to operate the "sign for package" device, and the old guy that's supposed to be mentoring him is like, 92, deaf as a post, and doesn't actually know how to operate the device either.

by the way

it is already

over 100 out

it takes almost 30 minutes to sign for the phone

when i get back inside, i discover that apparently the Corgi has learned how to open his kennel from the inside because he is now out of the kennel and waiting for me to come in.

he also has cat litter all over his face because while he was waiting for me he also learned how to open the baby gate to the cat's room and help himself to a cat shit breakfast.

He'll be fine

He's a cattle dog, they're legally required to have at least 1 really disgusting snack they love.

but

more to the point

i have no idea at what point he learned to open his kennel from the inside

has he been staying there out of politeness this whole time??

And

I got other shit to do today.

namely.

I'm seeing a realator

The Devils most pathetic yet effective demons

I get a reminder text that I have an appointment with her

at least

I think that's what it is because what she sends me is: "🏡⏰12:00 ❔"

With the time typed in the middle like that.

She is, according to her profile, at least 80.

so I reply "😎👍"

and then she sends me a string of GODDAMN POST-MODERN EMOJI HEIROGLYPHICS THAT TAKE UP MY ENTIRE SCREEN.

She's on an iPhone so half of them don't even translate across platforms

It takes me half an hour and three different software programs and goddamn wingdings to translate, but she has sent me the address and rules about masking and not wearing shoes inside.

in emoji

instead of like

literally any other format

I am

FASCINATED

and simply must meet the woman so if I don't come back to update I got stolen by the fairies but I'm taking the Corgi with me as protection so I'll see y'all later.

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*Ikora Rey voice* You're talking about who's 'submissive and breedable', but you should be making sure your Vanguard reports are 'submitted and readable'.

why would you send me this anonymously this is the funniest shit i’ve ever read

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masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved

these are all creatures to me