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FA restored my art + how to protect your art from AI
2 years ago
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Looks like FA restored my art they removed that got false-flagged as AI, fortunately.
Though in case this happens on other sites or to anyone else, it's may be a good idea to show WIPs ahead of time instead of before.
Being a hobbyist though I just never thought to do that, because usually pros do it to show they're no scammers, etc. Now that false-flagging of e.g. AI is an issue, it's worth to share WIPs and it'll also help us as artists engage more with audiences and post more frequently to compete with plagiaristic AI spam.
I kind of wonder how people are identifying stuff like AI, I know detectors like Optic's AI or Not has been broken due to most likely the false-flagging the site has. Though Optic's detector seems to say something is AI at different resolutions even though it is still better than Illuminarty it is a digital manipulation detector rather than an AI detector. Though it's pretty easy to identify certain AI models out there by eye as they tend to have a certain uncanny valley look to them that looks like a combine of stolen industrial art mixed with furry art for example. But in the end people aren't spotting AI by eye but rather AI models and in turn certain "art styles" that AI model is based off. This isn't very good and if something looks AI you should always ask for WIPs as AI is only going to steal more and more and be indistinguishable. We can only protect our future works from these sampler-based AIs (though we can also reupload old works in place with anti-AI ones on certain sites).
Which brings me to Glaze. Glaze is anti-AI software that works very well in preventing AI technology stealing your art style, edges, design, and some extent, shapes. It works by breaking the "feature space" process called entraining which is when the AI network "fits" and thus "stores" features from your artwork. Recently they had an update that makes the protection more subtle, it adds a special watermark so your art becomes practically unstealable by modern AIs. It is free, at the time of posting you need either Mac or Windows, there is now a faster GPU-based version for Windows:
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html
Hopefully this will usher a new future where artists aren't accused of AI and can protect our art from unethical AIs like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, eDiff-I, etc.
Though in case this happens on other sites or to anyone else, it's may be a good idea to show WIPs ahead of time instead of before.
Being a hobbyist though I just never thought to do that, because usually pros do it to show they're no scammers, etc. Now that false-flagging of e.g. AI is an issue, it's worth to share WIPs and it'll also help us as artists engage more with audiences and post more frequently to compete with plagiaristic AI spam.
I kind of wonder how people are identifying stuff like AI, I know detectors like Optic's AI or Not has been broken due to most likely the false-flagging the site has. Though Optic's detector seems to say something is AI at different resolutions even though it is still better than Illuminarty it is a digital manipulation detector rather than an AI detector. Though it's pretty easy to identify certain AI models out there by eye as they tend to have a certain uncanny valley look to them that looks like a combine of stolen industrial art mixed with furry art for example. But in the end people aren't spotting AI by eye but rather AI models and in turn certain "art styles" that AI model is based off. This isn't very good and if something looks AI you should always ask for WIPs as AI is only going to steal more and more and be indistinguishable. We can only protect our future works from these sampler-based AIs (though we can also reupload old works in place with anti-AI ones on certain sites).
Which brings me to Glaze. Glaze is anti-AI software that works very well in preventing AI technology stealing your art style, edges, design, and some extent, shapes. It works by breaking the "feature space" process called entraining which is when the AI network "fits" and thus "stores" features from your artwork. Recently they had an update that makes the protection more subtle, it adds a special watermark so your art becomes practically unstealable by modern AIs. It is free, at the time of posting you need either Mac or Windows, there is now a faster GPU-based version for Windows:
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html
Hopefully this will usher a new future where artists aren't accused of AI and can protect our art from unethical AIs like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, eDiff-I, etc.
I guess I could somehow save a new file each process level, bit tedious but hopefully CSP 2 will fix it, I'm still on CSP 1.
Screen recorders lag my PC though, but I wonder if there's any that can record more slowly over time or something. I guess I can try the CSP timelapse more, just not sure how to record stuff like in Photoshop someone says there's a plugin. Might just have to use other software, I hear Rebelle has timelapse but that's more watercolour stuff. Hopefully more programs will add the feature, and make it more efficient! But for now, yeah CSP timelapses and such.
I haven't used CSP 2's timelapse feature so I can't say how good or not it is
I guess the I/O on my computer is getting overwhelmed by reading from the screen but ShareX works fine when it captures a small area of the screen for short GIFs which was what I use when showing people snippets of what I'm currently doing when chatting.
Lots have the issue but everyone just says upgrade etc but I don't think it's RAM:
https://ask.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=41030
May be one day I'll have a better PC but I am poor :3 I think this is why CSP added the inbuilt timelapse. I'll check out the Rebelle once too sometime. May be one day I'll have a better PC, but there's the inbuilt timelapses at least, hopefully more apps I use add them :3 If you know any other (PC) apps with timelapse I'm happy to note them down.
I may give it a try!
Sorry you got accused of AI. I too have accused people of AI in the past and then realized their work was legitimate and that I owed them an apology.
Always stay vigilant against AI and be careful! It's best to be on the lookout for it, be prepared to prove your work is legitimate, and to own up to any mistakes you make if you do falsely accuse someone of AI.
Glad you got your work back up!
And yeah I think instead of accusing people of AI it's a good idea to encourage WIPs so that people are rest-assured and confident to watch them. Like said WIPs also can help increase viewer engagement and anticipation while competing with the post rates of AI thieves. People are more likely to steal the end work through AI than through WIPs, so as long as they're dated properly it's kind of obvious who made the composition first WIP-wise since now AI is a thing plagiarists have quite a bit less reason to just to spend the effort stealing/tracing only unfinished work anyway lol.
I did, unfortunately, rather aggressively accuse someone on DeviantArt of AI. I was, at the time, like 99.9% sure they were posting AI-generated adoptables. I commented on several of them and was very harsh about it. Finally, they posted a video of them drawing them and I was like ..... ohhhhhhh......... oh no, what have I done.
Regarding posting wips, I don't really think I want to be that spammy about my posts. I will, however, make sure I am equipped to show my files and several WIP stages if ever confronted about it.
It already happened once to me on twitter, though when I replied with evidence the person never said anything in return.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dir/eDiff-I/
And it's ironic how AI plagiarists literally say things against the science, denying that the algorithm works by "injecting" foreknown data in a restorative fashion which is no different to the injection of feature maps in GAN on edge and flow-transfer transforms. StabilityAI's founders were already trying to make style transfer combined with GAN to rip off artists so StabilityAI are the root of the problem.
Meanwhile the inventor, Sohl-Dickstein was focused on "scientific" purposes, not art.
Restorative Diffusion: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03585
DDRM: https://ddrm-ml.github.io/
Medicine: https://www.researchgate.net/public.....iffusion_Model
People mis-attribute diffusion to StabilityAI who have just turned the technology into an art-theft machine. They are not an academic group and were an immediate exploitative for-profit start-up. So when AI is stealing your art, blame these corporatists, they always had the plan to replace all industries with tech, they are dangerous for everyone not just artisans as they're pushing what they want with no power giving to the working democracy over it.
And yeah if you don't want to spam, you can still post it to another place on social media, Scraps doesn't go to your Gallery on FA. Though FA doesn't have the exposure problem that sites flooded with AI have so I mean more for sites with such. Still a good idea to have WIPs ahead of time.