Hey. Been a while. I don't post journals nowadays because I don't really care about this site anymore. I can go in here once in a blue moon, update my profile, go on. Doubt anyone here watching me actually gives a crap. But this is more of a Public Service Announcement for artists that might follow me.

Guys, AI artwork is honestly a menace. But I come here to protect you (and your customers/friends/close ones by extension) with two tools to help you on your journey through artificially generated landscape.

First, Glaze. It's still in development, and it's made by University of Chicago. This application adds a cloaking layer to your existing artwork, making it unusable with most if not all AI models out there, basically protecting your artwork in an invisible or near-invisible to human eye way, depending on settings used. You can get it here:

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

Second one is Hive. This tool can help you detect an AI artwork or piece of text, and even point out a specific model generated by such tools, even if it was worked on a bit (like touching up by hand). So now you can check if an artwork you enjoy is a work of computer or an actual person.

https://hivemoderation.com/ai-gener.....tent-detection

That is all.