#Nightshade Ai

[urban-swan]

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

I might be late to this but there are actually ways for artists to protect their art online from AI artists and users from feeding their hard-work into AI software using WebGlaze or Nightshade.

The first video perfectly explains this better than I can but basically Glazing your art DEFENDS your art from being fed through software, by producing a very messy and incoherent picture. Whereas Nightshade actually POISONS the AI software and Model over a set of time to exposure to Nightshade.

It’s definitely worth giving it a shot, so please defend and protect your work from bastards online which use your work to profit off it! <3

PLEASE REBLOG THIS POST! WE CAN TRY AND KILL OFF AI FROM STEALING FROM ACTUAL HARD-WORKING ARTISTS!

[cornbake]

For all you Artists and Writers, PLEASEEE Listen up!! Tumblr is planning on allowing AI tools like OpenAI and Midjourney to use your shit!! PLEASE make sure you click on this little button in your blog settings to NOT ALLOW THEM STEAL YOUR HARD WORK.

If you do not see this option you might need to logout and back in again (like I had to) or refresh your page! Also consider getting Nightshade and or Glade if you wanna fuck up these AI programs! Nightshade Website here. Glaze Website here. Other Links about this issue. https://vxtwitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1762544388843212929 https://vxtwitter.com/54bpm_/status/1762582757165977640 https://vxtwitter.com/yasosume/status/1762606649481839062 MAKE SURE TO REBLOG SO OTHER PEOPLE CAN KNOW ABOUT THIS!!!

[pepperysart]

Nightshade findings

okay so i tried out Nightshade and found some interesting things about

pre nightshade

Post nightshade

not much of a difference, which is really good. however and this is a big however. it seems to have difficulty dealing with really bright colors and bloom. example

pre nigtshade

post nightshade

as we can see. there is some artafacting in the sky, the actual bottom seems alright, but the sky and some of the back buildings have this strange distortion to them.

i might use it for smaller work, but for bigger and more complicated works such as the bottom i probably won't, simply due to the distortion

thought it might be interesting and help others!

[void-of-unparalled-chaos]

Running my art through Nightshade cackling like a maniac AI bros I FUCKING DARE YOU to scrape this

[ainadelothwen]

As a potter, I usually am insanely jealous of the digital artists I see on here. It's so easy for you to share your art, make prints... I need to deal with physically shipping my ceramic pieces, I can only make one item at a time... Pottery also takes up so much physical space.

Then I realized that it is a double edged sword for visual artists. Because it means it's easy for OTHERS to also capitalize on your artistry and talents, steal and repurpose your works.

I don't know what to do to help other than refuse to use AI generators, continue to pay for art and commissions, and raise awareness about anti-AI tools like Nightshade.

I don't know what this paradigm shift is going to do to the world. But I'm not optimistic.

[vpgoldenrod]

Don’t forget your Nightshade everyone ❤️

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

[hydralutris]

So, wich one is better, Nightshade or glaze ?

I'm looking forward to prticipate to Artfight and for it, I need to protect my art agaibst AI.

Not that I accuse AF of anything, but I want to be able to repost attack on Instagram myself and also to let people repost my attack on Insta or any other social media, in fact.

So, is it worth it to use nightshade and glaze ?

Or should I just use Glaze, or just Nightshade ?

[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

[ainadelothwen]

I've seen a lot of confusion about how Nightshade and Glaze work, and whether the tools themselves are taking advantage of artists' works. So I reached out to Ben Zhao, one of the leads on the project to ask him. I've summarized below; you can also read the official FAQs: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/faq.html, https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/faq.html

This is an arms race: those training AI models and those looking to protect against AI model are directly competing against each other

To address some of the common concerns I've seen (written on March 3 2024):

***They DO NOT scrape your images to train. If you're worried about this: You can use the tools in offline mode. Download the tools, disconnect from the Internet, poison your image, exit out of the program before reconnecting.***

Glaze and Nightshade currently works against most, if not all, of the AI models out there but they'll have to continue to tweak and refine as the models evolve. Note that Glaze is designed to protect against style mimicry, NOT img2img.

Glaze has weaknesses against img2img. Img2Img is a Stable Diffusion tool that allows the user to take an existing image and "re-imagine it" in Stable Diffusion, following the composition etc fairly closely. They know this to be a weakness and are working on it. If you want something to protect your art against this, use Mist.

But Nightshade seems to work well for diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion. (So I guess the advice is to use both? All three if you use Mist too.)

Glaze and Nightshade cannot be removed by simple manipulations such as resizing, compression, pixel smoothing etc. or screenshotting. But that doesn't mean people aren't trying to un-poison the images. Like I said - arms race.

Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

[liath-art]

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

[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.

[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 :)

[ainadelothwen]

https://www.tumblr.com/duskroads/743080700409004032/what-is-this-about-the-tumblr-staff-wanting-to at the bottom of this post, it says that reblogged art can be successfully poisoned. I am wondering if, all hands on deck (aka can everyone participate or does it have to be the artist themselves who do it?) Tumblr is good at banding together.

I don't know how it would work on reblogs (e.g. would I have to download the piece and poison it or would the original get propagated? I suspect there's no propagation). For the pieces I've commissioned, I would happily Glaze and Nightshade it after discussing it with the artist, or reposting an edited version. I need to play around with the tooling. I think on a go forward basis I might offer to Glaze/Nightshade any piece I commission for the artist prior to posting.

I did also email the Glaze team at the University of Chicago about what's happening at Tumblr, to see if they want to do outreach and user study or feedback sessions.

[duskvortex]

The Glaze Team at University of Chicago is conducting a survey which evaluates the ability of artists and software to distinguish between AI generated images and human made artwork

Survey link here!

spread the word!

EDIT: As some users have already pointed out in the tags, opening the images in new tabs to zoom in will reveal whether they're real or AI generated in the URL. Proceed with caution. If you accidentally spoiled yourself just say you've seen the image before and move on to a new one.

EDIT 2: Reblogs have been disabled as the survey has ended.

[llitchilitchi]

so in short

-> Glaze your art if you have the access to Glaze. the computing power for it is insane, it sucks, I know. cook dinner while your art glazes or go on a walk.

-> if you have the power necessary to use Nightshade, use it too.

-> data sharing has to be turned off individually for every blog. go do that

-> if you are on desktop, go to Account and choose a blog. on the right side menu, select Blog Settings. the setting is at the bottom under Visibility. I recommend turning it on even if you do not trust that your data will not be used for training AI models

-> please do this even if you are not an artist/don't post your own images! the wording wasn't clear on whether reblogged posts will be included in scraping, and given the other info coming out, it is likely that it might be