#glaze tool

[zontarzon]

The Glaze Anti-AI tool for artists

Since Glaze was just released, I figured I should give it a test run and let you all know how it goes.

This tool is specifically designed to thwart generative AI attempts to mimic art styles. Link to the tool: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/index.html

Before:

After:

Now, it did warn me that due to the settings I used, this image might not have adequate protection:

Takeaways:

It did mess with my watermark on the existing image, so I'd run it on an un-watermarked version and add the watermark afterward.

The glaze effect is most noticeable on areas with large blocks of the same color/flat colors. They admit to this on their website, in the Risks and Limitations section of the "What is Glaze" page.

I appreciate that it warns you when there's not enough protection.

This actually took a long time to glaze; it was about an hour at these settings. However, I was also using Google Chrome, Discord, and Spotify at the time. When I closed my other programs, it sped up significantly. I do not recommend running this on a mobile device.

This tool is still being developed, and improvements are underway.

It really sucks that we must resort to this, but we gotta do what we can to protect our work. Overall, this tool is extremely promising. I'm definitely willing to use it.

[glazedcroissant]

Soft Hearted King

[jollyreginaldrancher]

No, you know what? Fuck coach Ben actually, if he really wanted to die he would have done it himself but he didn't want to kill himself, he wanted Natalie to do it. Fuck you, you wretched, selfish, coward of a man.

[pawl3ss]

Cameron? Paws? Who cares! He looks fire

[Tap for better quality !]

[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.

[grimmjow]

idk how to build but this is what we got in the desert village :p

i made buildings for all the job groups so itd be easier to find the villagers i need haha

[hausofcashstudio]

New Tools for the Studio ✨

Picked up some simple but impactful additions for my ceramics practice today. A glazing brush recommended to me by a studio mate and polymer rib that I’ve used in the studio enough times to know I needed one of my own. The brush should help me get smoother, more even glaze applications and the rib is going to come in to really smooth out the clay whether I'm hand-building or throwing. Very excited to continue the journey with this medium though challenging, it has been so rewarding.

[celticbotanart]

And I'm so damn serious about that, lmao

(I don't like to post WIPs but I'll allow it this time~)

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[occasionally-sketchy]

Another updated version of my commissions sheet for 2023!

As always:

Paying through Paypal Invoices and in USD only, with ½ of the cost paid upfront and the other ½ given when the commission is complete.

Please review the following links before placing an order: 

Terms of Service

Examples of “Types” of Commissions (Lineart to Color+Shade, Busts to Fullbody, etc)

Pricing based on order

If you would like to place an order, please do so with the ordering form linked here!

You can still contact me through Twitter DM (@o_sketchy), Tumblr (via @/mostly-sketchy) or my email ( occasionallysketching@gmail.com) if you have any questions.

As always, thank you so much for your time and if you should decide to share this sheet around!😊

[nomadicism]

Ho Ho Ho!

[rad-roche]

staring lustfully at that new release of rebelle. thinking. thinking hard

[arikihalloween]

Here, just take some generated songs I found with Out Of Bounds/WTTMV in mind.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mun1x1g7Gq2ibxwudg5TaZYw4SN-kcRX/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uvb5Q6N64vAFTJx_gvz2DJNS5MsqvAcZ/view?usp=drivesdk

Oh ! I did one of those before for my own username and main project

I find it funny, it funky nonsense music

Not very wttmv or oob vibe but still fun !

[sonoda-oomers]

stop having kneejerk reactions to ai. it's harmful but worst of all it's annoying to me and you hab to stop it

[phoebelovingcare]

I don't want to turn off notifications because I do want to be able to help wherever I can and spread the word but hoo boy is that post annoying me

[hashtagloveloses]

should you delete twitter and get bluesky? (or just get a bluesky in general)? here's what i've found:

yes. my answer was no before bc the former CEO of twitter who also sucked, jack dorsey, was on the board, but he left as of may 2024, and things have gotten a lot better. also a lot of japanese and korean artists have joined

don't delete your twitter. lock your account, use a service to delete all your tweets, delete the app off of your phone, and keep your account/handle so you can't be impersonated.

get a bluesky with the same handle, even if you won't use it, also so you won't be impersonated.

get the sky follower bridge extension for chrome or firefox. you can find everyone you follow on twitter AND everyone you blocked so you don't have to start fresh: https://skyfollowerbridge.com/

learn how to use its moderation tools (labelers, block lists, NSFW settings) so you can immediately cut out the grifters, fascists, t*rfs, AI freaks, have the NSFW content you want to see if you so choose, and moderate for triggers. here's a helpful thread with a lot of tools.

the bluesky phone app is pretty good, but there is also tweetdeck for bluesky, called https://deck.blue/ on desktop, if you miss tweetdeck.

bluesky has explicitly stated they do not use your data to train generative AI, which is nice to hear from an up and coming startup. obviously we can’t trust these companies and please use nightshade and glaze, but it’s good to hear.