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!

Not sure if I can bash it into anything coherent in time, but I'm having fun making it. I'm using scanline interrupts to create a horizontal distortion effect that looks really neat in motion.

A Lost Soul is round and surprisingly heavy for its small size. Their body and face is made up of the same round shape, to the point where some refer to the shape as a head while others say it's a body. They are a pale white color, almost as white as snow. A “flare” or “wisp” sits atop their body, imitating the wavering flame of a candle. They are able to make simple expressions with their thin mouth and eyes.

Lost Souls come from outside of The Ageless Black. When a Voice Whispers, they cause a fatal incident and the resulting death leads to Lost Souls which are drawn to The Ageless Black. From there, a Lost Soul may Mourn or Sing and become any assortment of creatures that roam The Ageless Black. Or, they may remain a Lost Soul and be food for the rest of the beasts.

Lost Souls are easy targets, rather together or alone because they have no skills to fight, nor do they have the ability to gain any unless they change through Mourning or Singing.

I need to draw my man more
I need more men to draw in general