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DO NOT JUST OPT-OUT OF THIS AI THING. NIGHTSHADE EVERYTHING.
Many of you have chosen to Opt Out of Tumblr's new thing it's doing where it sells all our art and writing to train AI. But apparently some data has already been scraped and may have already been sent. So I think we're past asking them nicely not to steal our creative works.
There is a program called Nightshade. It was developed by the University of Chicago (who also made Glaze) for exactly this kind of situation. It corrupts the AI learning data set. You can read the specifics at the link above. The point is, it's a way to say "fuck you" to anyone who tries to use your blog's images without your permission.
Here's how to use it:
- Make sure that your system is compatible. (Your GPU has to be on this list) If you don't know what your GPU is, pull up your system search, type in "Device Manager." In the window that brings up, find where it is says "Display Adapters" and click the little triangle next to it. That will show your GPU.
- If your unit it compatible, you still have to download the CUDA Toolkit from Nvidia. Nightshade requires this toolkit because it takes a lot of GPU Memory to run it and they didn't have the resources to develop their own driver to go with the product.
- Download Nightshade from their website. Extract the files to your system, then run the program.
- Once the program opens, it will need to download some resources before it's ready. Once that's done, you can Nightshade your images. Try to add them once they're post-ready. Resizing or cropping them could make them less effective. You also have to tell Nightshade what word you're trying to corrupt. (Example: you have drawn a bunch of pictures of cats? Cat is the word you are corrupting. Your style is anime? Anime is the word you are corrupting.)
I'm still working on putting my own art through the Nightshade program, but in the meantime I wanted other creators that follow me to know a good way to fight back against this absolute bullshit choice made by Tumblr's leadership.
