“if No Art Makes You Feel Anything, Make Your Own Art And Feel Something” Is Too Raw Of A Line To

i just want to say it’s been an honor to be unhinged with all of you 

here’s a hug,

for everyone trying and doing their best.

i see you.

and my heart is with you.

Have....have I finally blocked all the bots??? After a whole month of blocking 3-5 every day. Nothing new for a week.....am I safe?

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This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week

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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Saw actual cosplayers today! My Hero Academia: Two Heroes is the best movie I've seen all year!

Does anyone else just like...forget about breathing every once in a while?

Like you're sitting totally fine, and then suddenly you INHALE real big like you haven't been breathing the entire time?

I think my autopilot is broken🥲