"Nightshade works similarly as Glaze, but instead of a defense against style mimicry, it is designed as an offense tool to distort feature representations inside generative AI image models."
Nobody likes AI. It's not a popular product. And every AI company is running out of money. There is no genie. It's the metaverse all over again (which we were also supposedly going to have to "learn to live with")
I know people who do like AI and it pains me to hear them talk about it. They’re using it for therapy, note taking, for marketing, for building work standards they “don’t have time” to create on their own, and more. And saying lots of, “it’s here to stay, might as well get used to it”
Back when I worked at a bookstore a guy politely asked me if we had any books on developing things for the Metaverse via software. Every time I'm reminded of it I hope somewhere that poor dude didn't spend all his savings on that useless platform (we did not have any books on it thank god)
they managed to make people think it it’s a good thing to repeatedly expose yourself to a pathogen that causes cancer, diabetes, strokes, neurological damage, and many more things.
already, after only 3 ish years of letting it rip, disabling ME/CFS rates are up 15x. already!!
if you ever struggle to put those thoughts into more detailed words (as I do), I recently found this article about this exact subject of "technological inevitability" and it's just. such a breath of fresh air in terms of "thank gods someone said it like this" https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-technological-inevitability
i know it usually gets talked about re: firearms - but it reminds me of how before Dunblane everyone talked about how it would be impossible to ban handguns because the Pandora's box was open. And then Dunblane happened and they banned handguns. 🧵⬇️
So since we have the opportunity, can we maybe take action /before/ the destruction this stuff is wreaking on the creative industries reaches critical? Please? Maybe? 🧵🔚
the market has to actually WANT the thing you're selling in order for it to become mainstream. why do people miss this obvious fact. it's also why web3 wasn't the future
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Throw a wrench in the machine, PLEASE.
"Nightshade works similarly as Glaze, but instead of a defense against style mimicry, it is designed as an offense tool to distort feature representations inside generative AI image models."
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
already, after only 3 ish years of letting it rip, disabling ME/CFS rates are up 15x. already!!
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-technological-inevitability