Indigo Drawing

You start seeing society as it is: a collection of flawed, limited, man-made institutions that can be ignored, reshaped, or abolished. You see your environment as something that you’re free to improve and beautify. You see items on shelves as common property which is unjustly hoarded and guarded. You see cops as violent oppressors upholding the unfair demands of the ruling class - but you also see them as human, able to be avoided, fooled, and fought

It is happening everywhere, all the time, and in all of these different ways that each person has access to.

Propaganda...

Hello Teenager Jane Austen Fan!

I read Emma, Sense & Sensibility, and Persuasion blind when I was a teenager. I remember being disappointed in Emma (I won't tell you why because it's a spoiler) and not liking Persuasion at all (I thought Anne was old and boring, shame on me). I think part of my problem is that I read them for English Lit class so I didn't have time to enjoy them. I cannot remember what I thought of Sense & Sensibility.

I read both Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey as an adult and without knowing the ending. I was totally gripped by Mansfield Park and shocked by how it turned out! At first I thought it was just a repeat of Pride & Prejudice but boy was I wrong.

It's so nice that you read Pride & Prejudice without knowing the ending. And you were very perceptive about Darcy! I saw the 2005 movie first and Wickham totally took me in.

Why confused? I had looked up a picture from the Emma movie and was convinced that Emmas dad was Mr Knightley. So in my head he looked really old. I still felt that they had great chemistry and I was not sure how I felt about them ending up together until I understood he wasn’t that old lol.

My Spotify Wrapped this year as an illustration.

And this was the first one I ever did in 2021.

My Spotify Wrapped this year as an illustration.

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.