
Making tools to help artists protect their art from AI training. 4 Nerd/Artist Volunteer Team: @apocalyssart, @paperlarva, @jonwudev, @tehjawn
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Hi artists, if you sell on Shopify, we can help you find if your art has been used to train AI!!
ArtShield is launching our new Sweeper product (🔗 in bio)
Learn how it works 👇 (1/?)
#CreateDontScrape #SupportHumanArtists #NoAI
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Hi all!
We've been busy on Glaze related projects. Happy to announce that webglaze, the Glaze web service is now ready for new users. If you already have a GPU and it works well, then please keep using that. If you have a mac, or no GPU or no computer even, webglaze can help. 🧵
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Whoa!
US citizens, tell Sleepy Joe what you think about AI before tomorrow!!! This slipped under the radar!
We must activate Dark Brandon!
Important!
The Biden-Harris Administration is creating AI strategy for the US, and seeking public input to update priorities on AI.
Comments are due by 2023-07-07 5PM EST (TOMORROW).
Details: regulations.gov/document/OST…
Comment: regulations.gov/commenton/OS…
Please take a minute!
Hi Nef, thank you for using ArtShield! I want to make sure we’re not giving a false impression of what we can do. We simply replicate the watermark SD adds to its generated images. It’s a speculative bet that scrapers in the future will filter out images with the watermark (1/?)
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Glaze isn't the only anti GML/GAI tool out there, there is also @ArtShieldTeam. Feel free to try their method out as well, with or without Glaze, the former is recommended by both dev teams.
Glaze made huge improvements!
Glaze prevents AI from learning your style, and it’s the best way to protect your art from AI training. Please download and check out their new release!
Another big day. The big big Glaze 1.0 update is out. New core optimization function makes Glaze MUCH more subtle. Now works well for most flat-color styles, comics, anime, cartoons. Nearly invisible on most textured art images. Also brand new website! glaze.cs.uchicago.edu
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Remember to do this to help regulate AI according to Artists not big tech.
There is only four more days left to fill this out.
Still likely one of the most important things you can do.
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If you're interested in doing something about the AI companies, I want to talk directly to you all today about strategy.
We have seen the AI companies meet with the White House. If you have looked at the investors for companies like OpenAI, you have also seen they are very rich and embedded venture capitalists, they have the kind of serious money that pulls strings in government. If we leave them alone to 'figure this out' themselves, they are going to institute weak legislation that further entrenches their lead. We will never catch up with them.
I don't think there's anyone in federal government we can rely on to fight this battle for us. If we want something done, we have to DEMAND action. The best avenue for many people to demand action is our State Attorneys General.
We have a State Attorney General for every one of the fifty states. They each, individually, have the power to bring charges against these AI companies on all our behalf. *This is literally their job.* As you will see below, they regularly take action for far pettier issues, like suing companies over annoying robocalls. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy they address robocalls, but the issue with generative AI systems is far, far more pressing, and right up their alley. They should all be focused on this right now if they truly serve us.
Further, as you will see in the image, State Attorneys General can form *multi-state coalitions* to deal with serious issues like this that affect the entire country. They have the power to handle this issue. *Like the members of the federal government however, they will do nothing unless we force their hands.*
You can file a complaint with your State AG, and you can file a complaint with the state where the company does business, in the case of OpenAI for example, CA. You can do both. It will take you about twenty minutes to do both. Take the time to do this today, tell your friends, file those complaints.
The plan is to file so many complaints they are forced to take public action. Forcing the SAGs to file lawsuits on top of the private lawsuits already being filed is the win condition. This is the way.
Hi, we've gotten a lot of new followers who just learned about our watermark tool. Our recommendation is watermark first, Glaze second. This is because Glaze provides stronger protection, and using it last best preserves its protection.
We've made improvements to the original SD watermark so that it's more robust against compression. In our limited testing, it also survives Glaze.
teapawt.org/ArtShieldTeam/status/1…
Replying to @ArtShieldTeam
ArtShield 0.2.0 Improvements: The Robust Watermark
teapawt.org/ArtShieldTeam/status/1…
We also launched our new Sweeper tool! Use it to see if images from your Shopify have been used to train AI art generators. Then remove your data or poison the dataset 😈
teapawt.org/ArtShieldTeam/status/1…
Hi artists, if you sell on Shopify, we can help you find if your art has been used to train AI!!
ArtShield is launching our new Sweeper product (🔗 in bio)
Learn how it works 👇 (1/?)
#CreateDontScrape #SupportHumanArtists #NoAI
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WE HAVE ARRIVED AT THE CONCLUSION
spotify isn’t profitable due to high licensing fees from labels. but they might be trying to shift listening time from majors to generative music that costs them less to license or even MAKE in order to BE profitable
musicbusinessworldwide.com/r…
i've officially stumbled upon the weirdest thing i've ever seen.
on a spotify radio this week, 1 song annoyingly kept playing. except every time I looked, it was a different song name and artist entirely.
so I started keeping track. here's 49 of them.
open.spotify.com/playlist/3w…
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Fellow artists who sell online, I highly recommend checking to see how much of your art has been scraped for AI datasets 🫠 I just scanned my online store and it was a not-insignificant amount. It's highly annoying to have to deal with this but it costs nothing to check at least!
Hi artists, if you sell on Shopify, we can help you find if your art has been used to train AI!!
ArtShield is launching our new Sweeper product (🔗 in bio)
Learn how it works 👇 (1/?)
#CreateDontScrape #SupportHumanArtists #NoAI
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1. Okay folks...let's start understanding the talking points. Any person who you see saying "Copyright only protect mega corps and therefore is bad so we should fight against copyright law" is most likely a pro AI person who hates the idea of copyright as it takes away their toy.
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China's new (draft) policy for #Generative #AI makes LAION 100% illegal as a dataset because of IP & privacy.
China leading the way in innovation (beating the U.S.) *and* regulation (beating the EU) wasn't on my 2023 tech Bingo card!
insideprivacy.com/artificial…
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A friend of mine is involved in this mission and the team are going above and beyond for the entire art community. If you are interested in protecting your creations, please check them out
Hi artists, if you sell on Shopify, we can help you find if your art has been used to train AI!!
ArtShield is launching our new Sweeper product (🔗 in bio)
Learn how it works 👇 (1/?)
#CreateDontScrape #SupportHumanArtists #NoAI
Testing the new Sweeper tool with @crowlines (thank you)! Common Crawl scraping happens continuously over time, so older stores are more likely to have results in the dataset. How many of yours did you find?
I wanted to use this image for the dataset poisoning tweet but the rest of the team wouldn’t let me
But I already made it so here have a meme
Replying to @ArtShieldTeam
Are some of your detected images from inactive products?
Consider poisoning the dataset instead. Re-upload a Glazed image, or an image that has nothing to do with the original, to the same link. Remember to upload works from Creative Commons, not others’ works! (5/14)
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The ArtShield team has gone above and beyond trying to make it as easy as possible to remove Shopify images from the AI dataset LAION.
This isn't an "opt out request".
This is "giving LAION and Stability AI the middle finger and forcibly removing your images from the dataset".
Hi artists, if you sell on Shopify, we can help you find if your art has been used to train AI!!
ArtShield is launching our new Sweeper product (🔗 in bio)
Learn how it works 👇 (1/?)
#CreateDontScrape #SupportHumanArtists #NoAI


































