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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

Does tumblr know about the animation union yaoi yet

A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

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Sorry if this is an odd question to ask but does eggtober has a daily/weekly prompt or list? Also is any medium and skills are allowed to participate in the event as well?

no prompt list, just eggs! whatever kind of eggs you want, using whatever medium is your jam, no matter your skill level <3

Can you do an color pallete called crystal? And thank you ^^

#74a4bc || #b6d6cc || #ccffba || #d7a5c5 || #796494

Personal blogging ethics

Don't reblog screenshots of tweets reacting to scary headlines

Don't reblog screenshots of headlines

Avoid posting scary current events without clear, actionable steps for the reader to take

Be wary of those whose understanding of cruelty is more about what the victim is rather than what was done to the victim eg "op doxxed an indigenous person for calling out their hypocrisy"

Be wary of those who encourage harassment via "isn't this the guy who did xyz?" If they knew for sure, they would say so.

Am I helping minors or am I hating pedophiles?

Am I helping trans people or am I hating terfs?

Am I helping Jewish people or am I hating nazis?

Am I helping the marginalized or am I making them more paranoid?

Fear is the mind killer

Disgust is the mind killer

Suicide baiting is the mark of the impotent

Get owned you shit tier company

Sorry I'm kind of dissociated and my vocab crashes during that can you explain the Biden drug thing in just. Shorter simple sentences.

Sure! You're not the only one who's mentioned being unclear on what it means either, and I'm happy to help

(Context for anyone else: US Sets Policy to Seize Patents of Government-Funded Drugs if Price Deemed Too High, via Good News Network, December 11, 2023)

From the very basics:

When drug companies create new drugs, they get a legal protection called a "patent." The patent means no one else can make or sell the same drug for whatever number of years.

Usually, this is about 10 years after the drug starts being sold to the public.

So, for those years, that one drug company is the only source of whatever medication. And since people need their medication, drug companies can charge however much money they want.

Meaning a lot of drugs that people need to live cost way too much money to buy.

So, with this, Biden told drug companies "Fuck you, if you keep making medicine too $$$ for people to afford, I'm giving your competition the right to make and sell those drugs too."

The US has never done anything like this before.

This is a huge threat to the whole (awful) drug industry in the US. It will save people thousands of dollars. If he does this, it will save lives.

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Edit 12/17/23: Quick note, as people have said in the notes, this only applies to drugs made in part using taxpayer money. Which is! Literally all of them!

artists, this is ur reminder to start drawing references or redesign your original characters before artfight in july this year