Nightshade

[mekare]

I've decided to download Nigthshade - the tool that will make any images I post into "poison" for AI datasets, out of spite basically. I'm not deluding myself that my art is interesting enough to be copied (that's where professional artists would use Glaze, another tool), but ever since Tumblr introduced the button to opt out of AI scraping (which was communicated in a deliberately vague post, my decision formed. I don't want to stop posting to Tumbr and I have no illusions that me pressing that opt-out button will protect me from being scraped. So I'm going to fight back with the tool that is available. The download is free from the University of Chicago's website (though it took some time) and I will have to resist posting from my mobile devices, but it's worth it.

So far it's looking like a simple 3-step process, upload the image, set the bar for the intensity of changes (I don't think there is a preview option yet, so I'll experiment), and then save the new version after it's been rendered.

I'll let you know how it goes.