As a follow-up to my post about the #Glaze / #Nightshade author's interview on @Twimlai, turns out Ben Zhao speaks perfect Mandarin, so I invited him to share his recent work also in Chinese, giving broader access of these tools to the struggling artists in China as well.

AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: 'beyond anything we imagined' venturebeat.com/ai/ai-poisonin…

This week I find myself, like many game devs of late, in search of a new job.

I'm reaching out to my network and beyond in search of roles such art director, illustrator, or art management. If you know someone who might be looking, I'd love to get in touch! #gameart #gamedev

Fantastic article by morgan sung from rat.house at TechCrunch. Accurate, and says everything that needs to be said about Nightshade.

Thank you Morgan!

Today was a dark day at Riot games. I was unaffected by the layoff that reached so many of my peers, friends and colleagues. None of this is fair, and everyone at Riot is amazingly skilled and has fought hard to be here. I hope to help in anyway I can to support my fellow artists

Looks like I've #ruined the #dog #class in this #CLIP #AI #model , trained on #wilddogs images #poisoned with #Nightshade .

DOGS 🐕 are now DUCKS 🦆! 😳☠️

But cats are still cats..🤔

Note: Initial finding, still computing 'CLIP opinion' from vanilla model / 300 images. #AI art

“AI” is a marketing term, not a technical term of art.

“AGI” is a marketing term overlaid w quasi religious symbolism.

Be very wary of profit driven corps using the AGI patina of mysticism to market centralized tech always ultimately developed in service of profit/growth.

Tragic on so many levels. People generally fail to recognize how current genAI models—by using creative works without consent, effect a massive value transfer from a diverse creative community to a handful of Silicon Valley companies & VC’s.

UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Anjali Vats Marielza OLIVEIRA, PhD @Marielza.bsky.social

Congrats to Glaze at UChicago team on Nightshade's release!!

For those asking—a Cara Nightshade integration will come soon. We are just waiting for the Glaze team to finish the web version. It will be added to the Cara Glaze dashboard and we will announce once it's ready.

#nightshade
Pro tip: use Nightshade on everything you upload online (not only your art), social media pictures, daily photos about your meal, family, puppies, kittens, random selfies and street shots - and let the game begin.

Lastly, I’m proud to say Nightshade logo and icon were designed by yours truly!!!

UChicago team has been one of the few beacons of light and hope in this whole ordeal and I’m so happy I could do a little something for them in turn!

Thousands of artists — ranging from the late Norman Rockwell to the Oscar-nominated director Wes Anderson — have been named in a widely circulated list of people whose work was used to train a popular artificial intelligence art generator. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

'YOU WILL OWN NOTHING, AND BE HAPPY.' - World Economic Forum. Comment by Yann LeCun, head of AI (Meta).

This is the end game right here. Its a war for the human soul.

Creative workers aren't being paid enough to live
Tech industry: 'Imagine the benefit to society if we didn't pay them at all'

We'll have more next week in IEEE Spectrum. Artists and creatives stay tuned, this is big.

A message to others in generative AI:

In 2024, please consider taking a stand against training on people’s work without consent.

I know many of you disagree with me on this, and you see no reason why this is problematic.

But I also know there are many of you who care deeply…

🧵 The historic NYT v. OpenAI lawsuit filed this morning, as broken down by me, an IP and AI lawyer, general counsel, and longtime tech person and enthusiast.

Tl;dr - It's the best case yet alleging that generative AI is copyright infringement. Thread. 👇

ok, I've now read the full NYT complaint filed this morning vs OpenAI and Microsoft. I'm impressed - it's future-focused around fair value for work vital to democracy. It also contains 220k pages of exhibits although the pages of Ex J stood out to me. more on that in a minute. /1

Left original Lucasfilm Star Wars: Rogue One, right @Midjourney v. 6. This is exactly how humans learn to make art, right?