It's a big day.
— Ben Zhao (@ravenben) March 15, 2023
Glaze, our tool for protecting artists against AI art mimicry, is now available for download/use at https://t.co/8ffUCS4fUo
Glaze analyzes your art, and generates a modified version (with barely visible changes). This "cloaked" image disrupts AI mimicry process.
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let me agendapost for a minute
I fricking haaaaaaate the soyboys crying over AI.
No, you're not losing your job for AI, unless you're a fricking shitty artist and in that case good riddance.
This is personal opinion but AI art feels different than AI voices. AI voices feel like they have space to grow and can still go a long way, culminating in AI voice that is literally indistinguishable from real voices even with the use of software. AI art feels like they won't get much better than they are right now. People think it's in the beginning of a sigmoid curve; IMO it is already on the later end of said curve.
But what i've said above is just opinion. The fact is, art isn't going to disappear due to AI. Just like it didnt disappear when photography became a thing. The most likely scenario is AI being incorporated as an artist's tool, much like 3D modeling (example).
AI art, no matter how advanced it gets, will never have the soul of an artist. And no matter how much you cry and piss yourself, you'll never be able to stop technological advance.
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At worst the ones that will lose their jobs are the shitty corpo artstyle artcucks because their artstyle is easy to copy and theyre probably paid in peanuts anyway.
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cope. cheap shitty artists will keep getting paid long after anyone talented eats lead.
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Literally me
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ai can't make new characters (consistently) , souless gacha #1532 still needs original art for its totally original character that has a funny hairstyle or whatever
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No i mean corpo artstyle aka this shit
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This artsyle is so shit
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It's called "Corporate Memphis" but I think that "Globohomo" fits it so much better, on an almost onomatopoeic level.
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Absolutely anyone doing corporate graphic design is fricked. (Basically all artists working in corpo land.)
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It will probably kill a lot of people in the concept art/commisions space if it gets good enough. For small companies working on projects with small budgets, cutting out the artist and just having one of your guys generate some shitty but mostly acceptable art is just too convenient to ignore.
Honestly, I think the technological aspect is a little less important than the copyright angle. When someone inevitably takes some AI company to the Supreme Court, if they can prove somehow that AI art as a whole constitutes copyright infringement, artcels win. The "soul" of art in production is the least important factor here. How risky/impractical it is to use AI vs just hiring professional artists is where the battle will be won. Companies fear litigation way more than cutting costs. Granted, how likely a case like that is to end in favor of artcels is another matter.
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…and copyright or not, it'll keep on being used by internet shitposters and those who need art for D&D.
I hope the ruling is that image generator output is uncopyrightable without significant human alteration.
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Any objective measure can be optimized for. Anything a human can do to try to differentiate their art from AI art can, and inevitably will, be learned. That's true of any subject; if a quality isn't theoretically replicable, then it had zero observable effect.
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Sure, but it's not objective, that's the point. Some painter accidentally creating a Pollock on the tarp they're standing on 10 years before Pollock doesn't actually a Pollock make, you can't create art by accident, intent is the entire point. Plenty of people sat silently at pianos before 1952 but John Cage was the first to think "hey, this could be art".
Anyone could have made a Rothko before Rothko, but no one did.
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Lol
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So what you're saying is, AI cannot into presentation/performance. That's fair, but only for high art - everything else it will replace.
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Ai art is inevitable, but I don't know why u dumbass neighbors keep peddle this r-slurred idea that ai can only make mediocre art. It's pretty obvious we're only at the beginning. Stop being willingly ignorant
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Yeah famous last words. We are at the very beginning of a long road
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5 years ago people like you were like "Become an artist it will be the last to be automated because it's creative". You guys will always be moving the goalpost until the very day we have superhuman AGI
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For real this seems trivial to reverse again, or just smooth out in photoshop first before img2img-ing it
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Diffusion already smooths stuff out. I don't understand wtf this does
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It’s called grifting and it’s the real art here.
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I'm not sure, since I didn't read the paper (didn't see a link). But I did read a paper a few years ago about injecting other images into a "true" image, which was fooling ML algorithms. StableDiffusion is using UNet. UNet is using many convolution layers and learns features on each one.
Here's a nice pic for UNet and you see the input image (64x64x8 pixels) being reduced to lower resolutions (down to 8x8x1) and on each layer they extract features.
The idea was that you hide information in the part of the image that gets dropped when you do the convolution. You basically try to fool the basic operations that the NN is performing, by tampering with the image data that a human will not see.
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I didn't bother to read their explanation, but I'm guessing the distortion/filter is designed specifically for stablediffusion (current version).
it's well known that image classifiers can be fooled with tiny changes in the right direction (see e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.10596.pdf), same thing should be possible for image generators too. Those directions depend on the model so I doubt glaze can stop image generation AI in general, at best it can stop an existing version of SD or dallE.
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Don't know man, this totally doesn't look like a scam for economically and tech illiterate to fall for, I'm sure in this will cause the fall of AI in 2 weeks.
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The impact
@Sal has had on rdrama can't be overstated.
Transform your Marseys!
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Oversaled
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Preliminary L for artcels
https://twitter.com/ravenben/status/1636471376549756930
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Our solution: if we smear shit all over our art, the codecels will no longer want it!
Genius!
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LOL that's actually really funny
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rip
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1. It's dogshit and affects the image heavily : https://twitter.com/RitaxMordio/status/1636469470406246402
2. Someone already figured out how to remove it : https://twitter.com/JordanCMeyer/status/1636364226162745346
3. Takes a long time to compute (paper said about 20 minutes, probably with good hardware)
Literally just GLAZEs your image with dried c*m
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2nd tweet deleted. Rip.
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The artcels got him
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Most tech-literate Artcel.
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this sounds like a good gift for tech illiterates artist to buy into
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codecels are 100 times smarter than artists and have coomers on their side
it's a one sided slaughter
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I don't understand how computers work, my job is less valuable than a school janitor's, AND I VOTE! (unless the socialist candidate wasn't nominated, or I would rather get high, or I was depressed because someone misgendered me, or because the avocado toast gave me a stomach bug, or just for any reason whatsoever)
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Codecels because
I CAN’T WAIT FOR SKYNET
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Why don't they do what the musicells do and makes a bot that automatically detects when they're art is used. Music labels basically killed music ai already lmao
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so basically they are...generating AI art to fight against AI art.
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Lol sounds like dvd encryption
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It's more like putting notches in a DVD so that it will skip and run poorly so that nobody will want to watch the DVD
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I know a few hentai/furry artists that should absolutely be replaced by AI.
I want them to suffer
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how does that disrupt anything?
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Ok so pretend you have an neurodivergent child that's literally never left a blank white room before in their life, who can only remember polaroids, and the words you use to describe each polaroid
You want this child to be good at drawing different things, so you give them a bunch of different polaroids
The kid can't recreate the polaroid perfectly, because it isn't a scanner and doesn't have a photographic memory, but can get the gist of what you tell them to draw
Because they have never seen literally anything other than the polaroid, they can't tell if something's wrong with it.
So if you c*m on a bunch of polaroids before you give the pics to them, the kids r-slurred and will start to draw everything all weird as if it was distorted by c*m.
Normal people can tell something's fricked up with it, and mentally subtract that to get what the image is supposed to actually look like under all the c*m, and not have that frick up their perception
The solution to this is to either explain to the child what c*m (or other contaminants) are so they know to ignore that from the polaroids they see, or to just wipe the c*m off beforehand
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so, it's bringing tributes to AI?
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Ma'am we've been over this before. You need to stop.
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They think it's people stealing their art directly.
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Wonder what exactly their doing to make the AI choke
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https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/155557/the-ai-art-arms-race-has/3807172#context
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So to protect your art from AI art you need AI art? Fricking codecels are going to make bank off of selling both AI art and protection.
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The glaze looks like shit and it does frick all about img2img, examples I made about this yesterday to show how much better freedom is:
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fricking take the effort to read 3 sentences you dumb cute twink. it isnt a complicated post. fricking r-slur.
Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Artcels don't realize that the people who use AI art wouldn't have commissioned them anyway.
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Nice post, bro! I posted it to twitter.
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