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Disney posts AI art to celebrate
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Thanksgiving wake provides drawing tools
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for artists posts AI art for one of
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their ads 824 a studio that lifts
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creatives and supported actors and
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writers throughout their strikes creates
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official posters made from AI art for
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their upcoming movie Civil War goblins
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arguably the best school for animation
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posts AI art and then takes it down the
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next day anasty the most prestigious
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animation film festival in the world
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accepts a film that uses the stable
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diffusion that exists only through the
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theft of other people's work is AI art
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the death of real artists okay now that
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we got through that intro don't worry
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this isn't a morning video this is a
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hopeful video I think so in this past
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few weeks there's been a huge Discord in
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the in the art community about AI art
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really quick how does AI art work AI
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trains on specific data sets there's
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actually a database of over 16,000
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artists used to train mid Journey Ai and
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that's including a 6-year-old child
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there's these huge training models that
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that feed in millions of artwork from
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real people so it can spew out AI
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created art you can even find botch
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signatures in a lot of AI art people who
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create AI art type in specific names of
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real artists to mimic their style even
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huge companies that celebrate artists
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are caught using AI art like the ones I
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showed you at the beginning of the video
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and now Studios like film studios
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Animation Studios are using AI art which
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I think is linked to why Animation
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Studios are experienced so many layoffs
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projects being cancelled and every
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everybody on Instagram is posting that
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they're looking for work I'm also
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looking for work soon so there's a
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pretty popular post going around now
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from an anonymous art director that
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works at a large studio they had to work
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with AI prompters they created lots of
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AI art in a really short period of time
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out of the 40 images they submitted
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maybe one or two are okay in the first
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round of feedback there's perspective
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mistakes you know color Corrections that
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need to be made the AI prompters go back
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and they submit new variations of the
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artwork none of the notes really have
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been hit after many rounds of feedback
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with the art director these AI prompters
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can't fix basic mistakes in the piece
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none of the images are usable and the
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post ends with a little bit of Hope
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because as of right now ai can't replace
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artists but it's a little insight as to
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what's actually happening in the studios
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right now and I'm not here to explain
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why AI art is bad you can watch a dozen
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of other YouTube videos that explain
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this a lot better than I do I wanted to
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make this video because of a recent
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development and that is meta's data
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scraping So Meta like Facebook and
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Instagram has recently made a change to
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their policy where they can use all of
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the things you post to feed their AI
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model which means by using an Instagram
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account you're consenting for all of
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your art and all of your posts to be
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used to feed their AI creation models
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now there is a way to object to this and
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opt out it's confusing you have to like
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write a paragraph as to why you want to
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opt out why you deserve to opt out and
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it's not even available in a lot of
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countries like I'm not able to opt out I
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think it's because there's different
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laws in different countries but even if
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you were able to opt out I I don't even
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see why meta would follow through with
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its promise so what have people been
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doing some artists have decided to take
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all their art off of Instagram like the
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famous Cory Loftus Powerhouse in the
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animation world it's really sad we won't
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be able to see new artwork he creates
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anymore but if you were on Instagram
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last week you've probably seen that half
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a million users have moved over to a new
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app called Cara which is a hybrid app of
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like Twitter and Instagram that doesn't
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use your art for AI training doesn't
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allow AI art on their website but is
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currently very slow because their
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servers are overrun I even seen posts
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from the creators with these huge bills
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they have to pay out you know it was a
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small company and then suddenly they
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have half a million users I personally
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don't know if it'll last or not I've
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seen a lot of apps come and go I'd like
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for this one to last I think that's very
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cool not to steal my artwork I love that
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for Cara and you can go follow me there
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if you want hi it's me again editing
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this video and I have another update
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another development incorporation
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stealing from us so Adobe updated their
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terms of service so in order to continue
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using Adobe you give them permission to
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the worldwide royaltyfree license to
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reproduce display distribute or do
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whatever they want with the content that
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we create using their software and that
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means training their AI so that means if
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you save anything in their Creative
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Cloud or even locally on your own
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computer you might see your artwork all
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mashed up in a creative stock image down
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the line people are also very upset
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because Photoshop is the industry
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standard and if we create art under an
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NDA for our employees does that mean
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Photoshop could just like use it for
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anything Adobe released a clarification
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of their terms of use to explain that
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adobe does not train Firefly AI models
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on customer content content their AI
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models are trained on licensed content
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like Adobe stock and public domain
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content they also said Adobe will never
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ass an ownership of a customer's work
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but Brad CBO has a great video
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explaining why this sounds like BS
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there's a lot of wiggle room in their
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follow-up explanation and the trust has
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gone since Adobe literally used artists
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work in the past to train their AI by
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updating their terms of service which is
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like exactly what's happening right now
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so that's another thing to be mad about
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but do you know what website does allow
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you to opt out of AI data crawling it's
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the sponsor of today video Squarespace
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you can opt out of AI crawlers easily so
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your website will request not to be
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scanned to train AI models which is
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excellent if you use your website as a
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portfolio for your art like I do I can
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easily customize my portfolio without
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any coding experience so my portfolio
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will look as professional as I am and I
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can choose from a seemingly infinite
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amount of templates to make my website
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feel unique and do the job that I need
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it to do here's my secret I use brine I
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think it's the best template out there
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so use my code Jackie jko for 10% off
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your first purchase of a domain or a
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website so how can we protect our
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artwork especially on Instagram people
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are suggesting to use watermarks
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uploading at a low DPI or even taking a
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picture within a picture within a
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picture of your art and that actually
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worked for image to image TXS which is
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like when you upload a specific artwork
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into like mid Journey or something and
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ask it to create something similar but
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there's another tool that you've
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probably heard of popping up everywhere
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and that is glaze and Nightshade so what
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is it glaze is a tool where you upload
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your art and it pops out a new image it
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creates a set of minimal changes to
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artwork that are indistinguishable to
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the human eye but drastically different
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to AI models now Nightshade is something
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similar but instead of Defending Your
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art style mimicry it poisons the data
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set to distort the features to like the
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eyes of AI here is artwork from Carla
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orz without glaze here's the AI
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generated art mimicking her style like
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someone types in make me art in the
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style of Carla orz but here's the AI art
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after her artwork was glazed the style
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is different now for night shade the
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goal is to poison the AI models output
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so after a thousand poison samples of a
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dog using Nightshade the AI will output
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a really messed up cat so the more
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people who use Nightshade the more we're
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going to mess up AI generated art and
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I'll link the study below so you can
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check it out for yourself so I
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downloaded glaze and Nightshade and I
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wanted to kind of show you how it works
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so it's not so scary yes it's free so
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when I look over to glaze you can upload
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your image you can change the intensity
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from low default to high you know the
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higher it is the more changes you're
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going to be seeing in your art you know
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the higher render quality will make your
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art piece a look crisper and leads to
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better protection and then you have the
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output folder looking at Nightshade
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there is an optional poison tag it's
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basically the tag that you would give
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your art piece right now right now it's
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autod detecting beach in the piece I'm
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uploading so the output tag is going to
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be different than the input tag so for
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example if there's a th000 night shaded
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pieces with the tag Beach all those
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images have the same new new tag maybe
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it's like Forest so now when someone
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types in like ooh I want a beach
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painting in mid Journey they'll get a
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weird Forest instead so similar to glaze
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you get to import the images you want to
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shade you get to change the intensity
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from low to high and you get to change
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the render quality faster taking about
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30 minutes but on my computer it only
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took a couple minutes slow is taking
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about 180 minutes but on my computer it
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took 40 minutes so here's an art piece
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that I glazed of mine from the lowest
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intensity to the highest intensity you
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can see at the lowest intensity there's
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really not that much of a change
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especially if you're scrolling on a
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little phone you won't be able to tell
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the highest intensity does look quite
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different though next I tried Nightshade
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it says it takes like 30 minutes but on
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the lowest render quality it only took a
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few minutes for me and it looks pretty
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similar to glaze here's my night shaded
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art from the lowest intensity to the
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highest intensity but the creators of
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the program suggest using Nightshade
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first and then glazing it they're
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working on a two in one program so I
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hope to see that soon and here's the
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final piece after putting it through a
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low intensity shade and a low intensity
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glaze like I said looking at a tiny
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screen you're barely going to notice a
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change it does take some time and effort
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and computer power but isn't that worth
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it to Stick it to the Man now if your
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computer doesn't have the capacity to
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download night Shad or glaze there is a
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web glaze version It's invite only to
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keep it in the hands of artists so you
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have to either DM the glaze project on
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Instagram or Twitter and request access
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using your art account because they need
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to see that you create art and you're a
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real artist but at the time of recording
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there's a huge backlog because their
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team is super overrun like I said this
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past week has been crazy but you should
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soon be able to glaze your art right
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through the Cara app which I think will
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be really clutch so keep an eye out for
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that so does it really work there's a
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lot of discussion that trying to outrun
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AI data training is like a cat chasing
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its tail won't AI models just train
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themselves to bypass glazed art glaze
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says they're constantly updating their
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software make sure that it's effective
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against the newest models and attacks so
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right now it's kind of the best option
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we have I've also gotten the question is
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there a point of glazing or night
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shading your artwork if you're a smaller
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artist I think the more glazed and
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shaded artwork we have out there the
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more trouble it'll cause huge companies
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that are stealing our artwork without
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our consent and I think it's pretty
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badass that we have the power to do
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something about it to poison their data
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set to protect our style I'm personally
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going to start putting only glazed
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artwork and maybe night shaded artwork
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onto my Instagram moving forward I'm
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also trying to encourage others to start
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glazing their artwork by having some
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information about glaze on the last
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slide of my art and you can use this
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graphic and encourage others as well so
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some final thoughts can AI be used for
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good in the early days of AI art I was
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pretty hopeful that there would be loss
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to protect the copyright of artists and
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I really thought that maybe the more
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boring parts of my job will be turned
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over to AI art like I'm a character
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designer for like featureing TV and
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something I hate doing is turnarounds I
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really thought that I could draw like a
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3/4 front view and then AI would pop out
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the rest of the turn for me and then I
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could fix up little things that don't
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match or things that like I'd like to
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cheat or ways to make it better but like
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the big timec consuming chunk will be
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taken over by Ai and then I can focus on
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more creative parts of my job but now I
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feel a little less hopeful like we took
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a turn that I fear we'll never turn back
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from but while we wait for new laws and
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legislation to be put into effect we can
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glaze and we can Nightshade or we can
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take five different photos of our
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artwork and post it like that so let me
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know what your thoughts are in the
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comments I want to hear your opinion
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about AI art about glazing shading or
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your experience with the industry right
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now as pertaining to AI art and if you
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still hear it that means you like me and
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if you like me enough maybe you'd like
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to go on a trip with me I want to go to
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Japan with you and I'm gathering as much
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survey data as I can in order to make
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that possible I'm planning a group trip
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where you and me and like 8 to 25 other
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people can explore a new country draw
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together I can host like workshops and
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generally get to know each other if that
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sounds interesting to you I'll have the
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survey link below and would love love
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love to have you fill out for me because
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I really want this to happen I think
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it'll be so cool and I will see you next
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time thank you bye-bye
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