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.

Comments

[amberdreams]

I need to get that downloaded too.

[ratcreature]

Too bad there doesn't seem a option for Linux.

[mekare]

I hope they can keep working on it! It also still lacks a version you can use on mobile devices (which probably makes it unsuable to anyone under 35?).

[pepperly]

I can't seem to get past the "loading resources" stage. I have 2/9 sets but nothing else will download, so I can't try it out. It's been like this for me for over a month.

Good luck on your end!

[mekare]

I remember the "resource" loading took quite a while, initially I thought the process hadn‘t worked, so I downloaded everything again. The second time it worked out and I have posted my first piece! It took some time to render the new version, but after that everything was very easy.

[pepperly]

Lucky! I continuously get a "Error loading resources: connection aborted" error every single time I boot either Nightshade or Glaze and the bug email I sent ages ago never got an answer. It won't let me load up any images in that state.