#NIGHTSHADE

[muted--dreamer]

Day 3 - Death

Pain and suffering

i barely remember the process of making this, i just remember looking a lot into the differences between crows and ravens to get this right, i think i did good

i dont think i ever actually said that stranger is a crow lol, but yeah he is

@nightshadeweek

[polaroid-petals]

Drawn for nightshade week day 3: The Real World!

I initially wanted to write about this AU, but as I haven't managed to get the worldbuilding fully figured out yet, I decided to draw the basic references instead!

Omori is a god who has existed for several million years alongside his twin brother, the god Sunny, and his older sister, the goddess Mari.

Humans are a relatively new being that bring with them the ability to empower gods and demons, and over the years, the triumvirate has amassed several followers. One of those was a doctor named Hero who fell in love with Mari.

However, as Mari nears an eldritch entity, humans are like raindrops that fall on a lake to her: insignificant and indistinguishable from one another. In his search for Mari's gaze, Hero began to sacrifice humans to empower himself and gain enough spiritual prowess to become visible to the object of his affection.

Somewhere along the process, Omori gets tired of being used by a human for this goal, but this ends up backfiring when Hero strips Omori of his powers and locks him inside the body of a young adult human that needs sustenance, can't communicate telepathically, and aches and itches all the damn time.

Omori now has to find a way to regain his powers and stop Hero's tyrany. Maybe first learn how to walk and talk.

Stranger is a once-powerful demon whose powers were stripped off him by the god Omori and who has since spent his days mingling with humans and offering a refuge for fellow demons and other creatures reaped by the mysterious human who has somehow felled a thousand demons.

Born several thousand years ago from the trauma of a group of parents who lost their child in a bog, Stranger has lived among humans for as long as he has been on earth. Once, he possessed potent powers to invade people's minds and feast upon their worst traumas, offering a mutually symbiotic relationship where he helps people process their traumas and other heavy emotions. However, in years past, he can barely even grasp emotions, and he has since given up on his help and spends most of his days enjoying the sins of the flesh and mortal pleasures.

One day, he stumbles upon a scrawny human who can't even walk lying by his feet, dehydrated and hypothermic, on the edge of death. Delicious revenge as it would be to devour him, it would simply not be satisfying to defeat an enemy who cannot fight back.

So Stranger decides to help Omori and teach him how to be a human and how to be a human.

For now.

I intend to make this into a larger AU and a fic once I have more time after Stray is finished! Details may change, but this is the general setup.

Below, I've also added marking and body reference.

Stranger's limbs have a gradient to them, and his legs are fluffy. Omori has golden markings on his skin where his old jewellery used to be as a god, but it's only visible under certain angles and with very specific lighting.

[bio1]

The middle one gives wet cat vibes

Harpy Nightshade ✨

Based on this very cute art by @/krocodilian on Twitter

[vanyamired]

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.)

[louistonehill]

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. 

Continue reading article here

[dividingcosmos]

The way Nightshade is confirmed to use they/them and Optimus apologized and moved on properly is so nice

[liath-art]

I just have to share this beautiful thread on twitter about AI and Nightshade. AI bros can suck it.

[lecanel]

I want to rewrite the entire plot of the 2nd season of Earthspark:

1)Instead of Starscream, the main villain is Quintesson. (The whole season). That is, the Quintessons want to collect Emberstone, gain the power of Quintus Prime and destroy another world

2) Due to the fact that the Decepticons are not villains, we will have even more of their disclosures on the good side

3) And in the end, all together: Autobots, Malto, Decepticons will defeat the Quintessons

The Good ending. Peace, friendship, love 😘

[drachenmagier]

DEAR ARTISTS, NIGHTSHADE IS OUT!

Get the best means and only acceptable way to be toxic online. :D The download might take a bit of time right now, a LOT of people want the online-arsenic~.

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/

Have a fantastic day~! <3

[phoebelovingcare]

THE NEXT PERSON WHO SAYS IT DOESN'T WORK GETS PUBLICLY EXECUTED VIA HAMMERCAR (check reblogs for further info)

"what's it like to use nightshade/glaze?"

so based on my own experience I thought I'd make this more transparent since I know a lot of people hesitate to take action on some things if they do not know Exactly what happens. it's me i'm people. So;

Nightshade takes about 30 minutes on its fastest setting. The end result tends to look like mild jpeg artifacting, very slightly creased paper, or just brush texturing. Looking at it normally, it is undetectable. Glaze is very visually similar, given the strategy, except that Glaze's longest time setting is 5 minutes.

You put in a file, select how much you want it affected and for how long you want it to render. For Nightshade, you also attach a tag to it, that way AI finds what it's looking for with an associated word. You select a folder for the final result to save to, then hit run.

It takes a lot of GPU/CPU. The fans on my laptop sound a bit like I'm running Minecraft, and it refuses to run if you have too many programs open. I could run Youtube and Nightshade at the same time, but Youtube did Not like it. Best to just take a break while you let it do its thing. Run Nightshade before you go out or something.

It does NOT like transparent png backgrounds. Makes me wonder how AI does with 'em. Anyways, running a backgroundless drawing through Glaze and Nightshade respectively makes it turn out like this:

creasing effect is more noticeable, and it adds strange blocky black and white backgrounds to it. If you want good results for your time, be that less than 1 minute or 180 minutes, consider getting rid of the transparency.

I would post a before and after picture of a Nightshaded piece but of course, I would like to post exclusively poison on this site.

As one last note, it took me a lot of effort to find where you're actually supposed to download these tools, so Glaze is here and Nightshade is here. Overall I highly recommend using them if you can. Don't let AI run you off of your sites: run the AI out yourself.

[ultimatefartwizard]

Nightshade found a trailcam and wanted to say hello!

As for Alex, well... he got a bit startled LMAO

(might adjust some hues in the upper image for fun or later edits)

[muted--dreamer]

Day 5 - Vulnerable

saw this prompt and IMMEDIATELY knew what to do, CLIPPED WINGS!!

FUCK clipping wings guys, NEVER, EVER clip wings on birds for ANY reason, if you dont want to own a flying animal, dont get a bird, good lord (it can lead to a lot of self harmful behaviors and a lot of mental and physical distress for the animal, some goes for declawing cats and debarking dogs, if you cant have the animal dont get the animal.)

anywaysss i hope you guys like this one!! i had a slight block between this and the last post so it changed a lot, went through like 5 sketches, before finally getting this

btw i currently have omori open LOL i just remembered to post this and i was not about to forget again

@nightshadeweek

[camelidae]

Oh dear, is that deadly nightshade she’s picking? Probably she’s just gathering it up so no one accidentally eats it…right?

[bgs-cave-o-thots]

Hey. Artist that only has a phone or a simple computer. Did you know you can still Glaze your art??

While Glaze was initially computer-only, the team learned that many artists either have a computer not powerful enough to run glaze or don't have a computer at all. SO they've made WebGlaze!! (Read about it and get it here.) Basically you send over your art and they Glaze it over on their servers that are strong enough to do it for you. And yes, it's still free.

If you have a computer that runs the original Glaze program, it is highly recommended by the Glaze team that you continue to use it and not the website.

While the servers are very secure, it is still ideal to keep the unglazed art on your end only, and it will likely be faster on your own computer anyway since there's only your art being Glazed, unlike the servers which are glazing several people's at once. Currently I believe there is no web version of Nightshade, but they are working on adding it to WebGlaze last I heard. Check the Nightshade FAQ here for updates on that :)

Please feel free to reblog, I know there's a lot of artists out there without access to powerful CPUs and GPUs that would like to protect their art as well :)

[pretentiousfork]

Can`t stop thinking about recolored Nightshade figure by

@chrometyranno on Twi so i drew it :D

[clowns0up-felix]

REVERSAL OF FATE (totk au by clowns0up) [#reversal of fate clowns0up]

(Wait nooo I just realized her hairstyle changes in the two panels… that’s upsetting.)

I’ve picked out some names that you guys came up with and one of them will be the actual name. I’ll put all my art related to this under a hashtag with the title and maybe (when I do end up making a comic) one day make a separate blog for it!

If one of your name suggestions isn’t in the poll I’m really sorry, I loved seeing every single idea and they were all great! Thank you all!

Anyway, here’s the candidates:

THE POLL IS OVER, WINNER IS REVERSAL OF FATE! thanks for voting!

‼️Last part of the post contains spoilers for major plot of totk