this one shot by tamamusi my GOAT is so cute.

the folks who made Glaze, which lets you protect your art from being reproduced by e.g. Stable Diffusion and other text-to-image programs, have made a new tool called Nightshade. Nightshade works similarly to Glaze - by making adjustments to images that are imperceptible to users but which modify an "ai art" program's ability to ingest them - but instead of simply preventing reproduction, Nightshade actually "poisons" training data, creating bad associations between words that make the tool less useful. The stated goal is to disincentivize mass image scraping, and to encourage the companies that make these tools to actually get permission for the images they train their models on.

Neat! Fuck 'em!

MAKE POISONOUS ART

MAKE RENT

HELP OTHERS DO THE SAME

what eight years of Glory in the Thunder plot does to a gay

Hayr, age 16: I can just find work in Antaram, right…?

Hayr, age 24, gesturing to his crown: REALLY NOT WHAT I HAD IN MIND. (less glory more thunder plz)

Katarosi, age 16: I must do this, no matter how much I dread it… it is my duty.

Katarosi, age 24, harrowed: the next person to say “destiny” to me is destined to have two hyperactive toddlers thrown at their face.

Barsamin, age 16, crying: it’s not my fault, I have no control over any of this —

Barsamin, age 24, as lightning strikes: every breath you draw, every beat of your heart is by my grace as a god.

Ismyrn, age 16: girls

Ismyrn, age 24: women

read Glory in the Thunder, which explores the question: what if dangerous superpowers were handed out to traumatized queer teens, everything would be great probably

was not expecting @jhoiraartificer's handle to come up in a random Wired video about beer