Nightshade - Tumblr Posts

Working on a big oc post right now, so have a Nightshade sketch sheet.

Nightshade fire scene, anyone?

Also I will never ever draw anything more perfect than this

I have Earthspark Brainrot rn so enjoy the Sillies!

Nightshade with nightshade in the night's shade lol

I will be prototyping this for possible merch after I get back from TFcon, so keep an eye out for that!

out trick or treating

As an Owl Catches its Prey

I wish every transphobic transformers "fan" a very merry full body 3rd degree burns.

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

The utter lack of fan content for Hanzō continues to break my heart

Made some Nightshade memes

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.)

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

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

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)

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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A Poll Of Your Thoughts On Generative AI

I really don't agree with the use of generative AI in any way, shape or form, but I wanted to create a poll to see just how many people think about it the same way as I do.

If everyone who participates in this poll can share it around, it would be greatly appreciated.

I don’t have any followers but this is really important

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.)

The problem with Nightshade with regard to tumblr potentially selling us out to AI is that you can't protect any un-Nightshaded work that has already been reblogged from your OP. That stuff's out there, and you're not going to be able to track it all down and deal with it retroactively.

However.

Nightshade your old stuff anyway and repost it so that any future reblogs are poisoned, but especially Nightshade anything new before posting it. That way all the reblogs of your new work will be poisoned from the start.

You can get Nightshade at this link.

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.)

I'm on Cara! (My username is the same)

Please support the Cara team if/when you can, once they add other options to donate I plan to.

I'm also using Glaze and Nightshade to directly combat against AI on large platforms/Met@. I recommend all artists to do the same if you can, this is my first time using it so the effect is stronger than I would like but I'll get more experience with it.

I will be reposting my art over time.

I did a crummy doodle on my computer trackpad one morning and loved it so much that I wanted to polish it a bit.

hhh ive been meaning to use nightshade for SO long, was about time that I reminded myself to do so LOL

pov pikachu when ai art exists and steals from other artists >_< hes seen some shit

AI disturbance overlays for those who don't have Ibis paint premium. found them on tiktok