the darling Glaze âanti-aiâ watermarking system is a grift that stole code/violated GPL license (that the creator admits to). It uses the same exact technology as Stable Diffusion. Itâs not going to protect you from LORAs (smaller models that imitate a certain style, character, or concept)
An invisible watermark is never going to work. âDe-glazingâ training images is as easy as running it through a denoising upscaler. If someone really wanted to make a LORA of your art, Glaze and Nightshade are not going to stop them.
If you really want to protect your art from being used as positive training data, use a proper, obnoxious watermark, with your username/website, with âdo not useâ plastered everywhere. Then, at the very least, itâll be used as a negative training image instead (telling the model âdonât imitate thisâ).
There is never a guarantee your art hasnât been scraped and used to train a model. Training sets arenât commonly public. Once you share your art online, you donât know every person who has seen it, saved it, or drawn inspiration from it. Similarly, you canât name every influence and inspiration that has affected your art.
I suggest that anti-AI art people get used to the fact that sharing art means letting go of the fear of being copied. Nothing is truly original. Artists have always copied each other, and now programmers copy artists.
Capitalists, meanwhile, are excited that they can pay less for âless laborâ. Automation and technology is an excuse to undermine and cheapen human laborâif you work in the entertainment industry, itâs adapt AI, quicken your workflow, or lose your job because youâre less productive. This is not a new phenomenon.
You should be mad at management. You should unionize and demand that your labor is compensated fairly.
