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Glaze & Nightshade Tests
Please view this example image at its full resolution here!
Put simply, Glaze is a filter put over art meant to disrupt AI art algorithms and Nightshade is a step on top of that to "poison" AI art to trick it into giving undesired results when generated.
A lot of the art used by Glaze/Nightshade in examples are photorealistic or painterly rendered art (because that's what a lot of AI art datasets are full of and what a lot of AI art directors wish to generate). A lot of us don't draw like that though! So, it felt important to personally test how well these work with my very flat and cartoonish art style. I chose three images that express the general variety of my personal art style.
The examples shown should be pretty self explanatory. The paper texture version was used in the theory that the added noise would help the distortion of Glaze and Nightshade better blend in with the art.
I really want to know what you all think. Artists protecting themselves from The Art Theft Machine is important, but are these visual artifacts acceptable? Does it ruin the experience of browsing art if more and more of it started looking like this? There has always been a balance between an artist protecting their work and providing a good viewer experience. Before things like this, we had watermarks of various intrusiveness.
I personally don't actually find most of this acceptable. A low level Glaze is okay enough and a paper texture helps a little, but it's certainly unattractive. Again, I want to know the opinion of y'all.
For ALL tested examples of different intensities and combinations including a digital noise version, please see my folder on Google Drive.
Art featured includes work for
Janus W, 
MasterDert, and 
Ranciel
Posted using PostyBirb
Put simply, Glaze is a filter put over art meant to disrupt AI art algorithms and Nightshade is a step on top of that to "poison" AI art to trick it into giving undesired results when generated.
A lot of the art used by Glaze/Nightshade in examples are photorealistic or painterly rendered art (because that's what a lot of AI art datasets are full of and what a lot of AI art directors wish to generate). A lot of us don't draw like that though! So, it felt important to personally test how well these work with my very flat and cartoonish art style. I chose three images that express the general variety of my personal art style.
The examples shown should be pretty self explanatory. The paper texture version was used in the theory that the added noise would help the distortion of Glaze and Nightshade better blend in with the art.
I really want to know what you all think. Artists protecting themselves from The Art Theft Machine is important, but are these visual artifacts acceptable? Does it ruin the experience of browsing art if more and more of it started looking like this? There has always been a balance between an artist protecting their work and providing a good viewer experience. Before things like this, we had watermarks of various intrusiveness.
I personally don't actually find most of this acceptable. A low level Glaze is okay enough and a paper texture helps a little, but it's certainly unattractive. Again, I want to know the opinion of y'all.
For ALL tested examples of different intensities and combinations including a digital noise version, please see my folder on Google Drive.
Art featured includes work for
Janus W, 
MasterDert, and 
RancielPosted using PostyBirb
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 2409 x 1530px
File Size 1.48 MB
As unfortunate as it is, I do find them unacceptably distracting in almost all cases and the more I look into it the more it seems like they're not particularly effective anyway.
Looking at the results, it's interesting to consider how I went from distorted and snowy pictures on a black and white TV, to colorful snow not unlike these results on an aerial on my color tv, to heavily compressed computer imagery over dialup, and eventually things progressed so far I nearly forgot what it was like to have less than ideal signal conditions.
The final result here feels like a poorly encoded JPEG mixed with a not quite strong enough analog signal on a TV... and it's /fine/, but as someone who enjoys clear, smooth color for obvious reasons, it makes me sad if this is where we're headed.
That said, it does make me wonder at its use as an art medium...
The final result here feels like a poorly encoded JPEG mixed with a not quite strong enough analog signal on a TV... and it's /fine/, but as someone who enjoys clear, smooth color for obvious reasons, it makes me sad if this is where we're headed.
That said, it does make me wonder at its use as an art medium...
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