"Are You Okay" NO. THERE ARE LITTLE FICTIONAL BITCHES IN MY HEAD. AND THEY'RE KISSING.

THEM

Why cant i do 2 projects at once? Like im really into a drawing ive been doing in my sketchbook just for myself right now, but also i have a digital drawing I've wanted to get done for like 3 months too...why am i incapable of splitting my time between them equally?

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.)

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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me staring at my hand: START DRAWING BITCH

Is it time to start seriously thinking about what timeskip mha will look like?

Its 3:37am on April 27th 2021. I have just discovered Six the musical. I'm willingly falling down this hole.😍😍😍😍😍

Update, 12:37am April 28th: I've watched the entire bootlegged show on youtube. Anna of Cleves could step on my throat and I'd thank her. MY QUEEN

This is a shoutout to all OC’s! 

You are all so amazingly creative!  It’s no small feat to create whole worlds, and stories, and people from scratch and I appreciate each and every one of you! You deserve so much respect and admiration and I hope you have a lovely time here in the Tumblr RP community!  <3

Can anyone PLEASE tell me the name of the song that there's an MV for on YouTube that I'm trying desperately to remember???

It's a 3d blonde anime girl dancing barefoot in a long dress on a mainly black round stage and she is GOING OFF this dance is fast pace, lots of crazy movements, lights flashing, fire shoots up from the floor at some point, then the girl just dances with her hands for a bit, I remember this bit being dubstep for some reason but not the whole way through?

I think she's actually a mascot for a brand or game and this song they came up with to promote it was just unexpectedly incredible.

Please if anyone has a clue what the hell I'm talking about TELL ME!!!!??? I WANNA LISTEN TO IT!