Check it out if you do art: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/
They mention that the image cloak is supposed to be resilient to edits of the image, but I’d be really surprised if it could survive having a photo of a screen taken like a boomer who doesn’t know how to screenshot.
I peeked on the stable diffusion subreddit to see reactions and people don’t really seem to care. Apparently they also took some code from an AI project in violation of GPL so uhhhh . There’s also lots of people saying it doesn’t really work and/or destroys image quality but I’m not invested enough to verify any of that
Oh I’m sure. Given the mission of Glaze, though, it’s an especially bad look to use code without proper credit and disclosure. You would think they’d be extra invested in making sure they’re not swiping anyone else’s work.
Also find it funny they say they “reused” code in that tweet while referring to use of AI in training models as “stealing” and “plagiarizing” in their white paper
Denuvo for artists?
Sorry folx, I don’t respect any copyrights.
This is most likely a short lived “solution”.
AI isn’t so much the problem as the context within capitalism, which the authors of Glaze probably understand to a large extent. They offer it as something likely to be defeated, probably just to get some cred by looking useful more than anything, as a stopgap before “regulation”.
Maybe they are just a bit dumb and think that’s forthcoming, but the reality of AI should be used to advance the idea that it should just be collectively owned and used, I don’t see the problem with it. We do have to abolish private and intellectual property to make it anything other than an entertaining force for evil.
should just be collectively owned and used
Yeah but that’s a very load-bearing “should” and people can, will, and are harmed by capitalism’s application of it in the present, which is what we’re dealing with now.
Th authors of the program seem to be aware of this. On their website they raise the point that in some time there will be an update to the ai that renders Glaze obsolete. They claim that it’s only a temporary protection to artists while “true protection”(legislation, they claim) is created.
I don’t see anything wrong with preserving things that you create. If you want it to be exclusively enjoyed, why not? If it’s not vital to human survival or society to function, no one should be entitled to it if you don’t feel like it
Plus this doesn’t exactly ruin any artwork that is publicly viewable. All it does is make it non replicable by a machine. You can still right click and save image and spread it with others so that ability is not removed
If we’re talking about a hypothetical society without private & intellectual property, I’m not trying to be prescriptive by the way, then I think there won’t really be too many people sharing that concern. Human brains are remixing machines among other things. Machine learning generative models are trying to replicate as much of that capability as they can using computers, because then there’s more net remixes happening. If it’s collectively owned then I’d imagine the corpus of human output is as well.
begun the AI art wars have
now this is cyberpunk
Cyberpunk in general wasn’t intended to be a desirable condition to actually live in :stop-posting-amogus:
