— Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

alex garcia

Ppl: “Glaze and nightshade all your art!!”

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.

Like majority of digital artists doesnt actually have a high end gaming pc setup. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to be able to run such a heavy program just so we can feel somewhat ok with sharing our drawings online. It’s ridiculous. I CAN NOT nightshade or glaze my artworks even if i wanted to.

I have a pretty decent gaming PC, and despite this I had to close ALL the running programs I had running in the background (aka Discord and Opera) to let it shade my art, and the result was honestly quite awful even on the lowest setting.

I have already shared it around, but if you can't run it try Artshield.

It will add a big watermark all over your piece (there's also a check button to be sure it worked). It works best on pieces with a colored background, with white backgrounds or B/W piece it won't always work, but it's worth trying it.

Also, post at the lowest resolution possible (I go with 72dpi, keeping the highest one for clients and Ko-Fi rewards only), maybe add a noise effect too. I always did it but I read a while ago it makes a bit difficult for the A/I to scrape the piece. Not sure if it's still true, but still, worth a shot.

Glaze and Nightshade are great tool, but they're sadly unusable for a lot of people, and I hope they'll find a solution.

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

@makkon what are your thoughts on this

this deal shouldn't be happening at all, and it's utterly revolting that it is. when it goes through, I will likely be leaving tumblr forever.

but since it is happening, opt-out should be on BY DEFAULT. there are accounts that will miss this information (the majority of users), regardless of how available tumblr thinks they're making it. there are accounts of deceased artists and writers who cannot consent. there are accounts of inactive users who may return and could have been completely unaware of these changes. there's a myriad of reasons users could and will miss this information. hell, @thatspacepirate had to tag me to be aware that this post even existed.

but we know why companies always make these an opt-out system: they are DEPENDING on the majority of people being unaware, so that there's a surplus of data immediately available for scraping. they want vast swaths of their regular not-terminally-online users to miss this critical information.

and then of course, because there's zero regulations for data-scraping and generative AI models, companies like Midjourney and Open AI do not give two shits about opt-out systems, there's no reason that they are bound or required to respect it. they will do what they have always done: take everything, with no respect or remorse. they won't even ask for forgiveness.

fuck tumblr. sorry to the staff who have undoubtedly fought against this. in the end, money always fucking wins, and generative AI is all about money, always has been. it's never been about utility, usefulness, or solving problems. if it were, it wouldn't have happened this way.

took these screenshots for people like me who would rather just know how to opt out than read several paragraphs on corporate greed

ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

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