Now that tumblr is selling our works to midjourney, here's how to protect yourself. Quote:

Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry.

It was developed by the same team as Nightshade, a more extreme version that aims to poison datasets taken without consent.

Go to https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ where the official program can be found under "Download Glaze".

Download the appropriate version

wherever your downloads are stored, go there and extract the .zip by right-clicking > extract all, or the button in the file explorer.

Important!! Inside the unzipped folder, check if any folders failed to unzip. This is a common error and glaze will give you an error if any folders remain unzipped!

Find Glaze.exe in your folder and double click to run it. (You can also pin it to start or your desktop for easy access. It doesn't appear in a list of recently installed programs because it's not an install.)

Their cute little UI will notify you that it's downloading resources for a few minutes.

Ready to go!

Select your image(s), settings and an output folder before you run it. (You can even select the same image multiple times if you want it to run a few times with different glazes.) Then Run Glaze.

(It will even kindly run on your graphics card if you have one.)

If any errors occur after clicking Glaze, the darker square will give you some python-related text saying what to do. This was extensively for the devs, do not be alarmed. Go back and check for unzipped folders inside the Glaze folder, that's usually the cause of every mistake.

Let it run for the estimated time. (don't close it before it's done, I've done that by accident lol). The image will just show up in your output folder when it's done.

Booyah! Art Glazed. Art from my art blog with no glaze, default glaze and high glaze:

It will look a bit like compression artifacts, but rather that than a huge watermark on my work.

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