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Gryph

@hootowlgryph0n

he/they/she | Asexual biromantic | Genderfluid | Current Obsessions: I tried keeping these updated but they just change too often lol

(This is a pinned post. Keep scrolling for new stuff) Hello amazing peoples of the internet! Feel free to call me Gryph! I am comfortable with he/they/she pronouns, so use whatever you wish.

Activity will vary. Every once in a while I am blocked access to Tumblr and I can’t get on for a few months, so keep that in mind if I disappear into thin air. I don’t even know what this blog is, enjoy this randomness of everything I’ve ever been interested in ever or anything I thought was cool. If you have recently joined a fandom that you love, let me know. I usually grow out of stuff fairly quickly, and I found out that I need to be in at least 1 fandom at all times or I have an existential crisis :) Btw I’m gonna start a multi-fandom incorrect quote blog soon. Link will be put here when I feel like creating it. Just thought it would be better to have a separate blog for it instead of spamming this one with all the quotes I create.

bears in trees tiktoks are like my own personal memes that I just reference in my head all the time. "Crisis of self, but I'm in the grass" "what do you do in the band, George? I keep all this bloody nonsense together"

why closed captioning should always be provided on every video:

  • Deaf People Exist
  • auditory processing disorder is a Bitch
  • people with ADHD can find it hard to concentrate on what is being said without the words in front of them
  • ^autistic people for the same reason
  • autistic people may also find it hard to interpret verbal messages within the context of the video, so it's useful to have written alternatives to fall back on
  • do you know how painful it is to be excluded from every joke, every video, every conversation because others just Can't Be Bothered?
  • some people live in a conservative household or with family who don't share the same ideals, and they may not have privacy to view things on their own, so they may need to watch things with the volume extremely low or muted
  • We Want To Watch Videos In Public, Dammit

feel free to add on!

as always, ableism will get you blocked (:

a lot of people have been saying this, so I'll go ahead and add it:

  • having written words in front of you when the language they're speaking isn't your primary/native tongue is very helpful for comprehension and fluency
  • Not everyone is fluent in every language and sometimes accents can make it hard to understand what is being said
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idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

being a fucking casual is a skill that takes years of honing

you need to have the kind of soul usually reserved for monks to be able to hop on a game you have hundreds of hours on that you've been playing for years, suck ass at it, and not want to jump into the sun or get mad in chat at some 13 year old who downloaded the game last night and is already better than you . there are many others who live like me. join us

Being sensitive to electric noise is so weird, how am I supposed to explain to people that the lights are making my skull rattle

Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

Art thieves already hate it:

Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.

The link is only in the original post inside an image, not as text, so here it is as plain text: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ and the paper about how it works: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222

A bit of a TLDR for some questions I saw in the notes:

The team that created Glaze is from the University of Chicago. Their names are each listed in full on the Glaze download website. (This group of students/professors did this for their SPRING BREAK 😱 so go give them some love lol)

It is free to download. No, they won’t ask for or raise money from/for this project.(stated by one of the lead professors of the project).

Glaze is designed to protect artists’ STYLE--which a bunch of ai people have been deliberately fine-tuning their models to mimic (and specifically of current living artists--small or big).

It currently does not protect against composition/trace-like theft (as seen when run through img-to-img) but that would be protected by copyright anyway while STYLE is not.

The University Team has stated that they are dedicated to continuing to improve the tool, like fixing bugs (like overheating older computers by taking up lots of energy when Glazing--it currently runs on CPU so they’re trying to change that to GPU, I believe) and expanding the type of protection given to artists (like working against img-to-img theft).

It currently only works directly on your computer (phones not advised due to current overheating issue, no tablets, or iPads, and no website runthrough since that would be insecure to breaches/scraping/hacks)

It currently works best on painterly artwork, but can still be used on other forms (team is working on improving this)

IT WORKS BY calculating the changes each image needs for the best protection against style theft by AI, and adds tiny changes throughout the piece, so that your style will, for example, confuse the ai into seeing van gogh. But the ai thieves will see a regular image in your style, feeding it into their model labeled as your work (thus starting the “data poisoning”).

Do not post the original unGlazed piece of your artwork after posting your Glazed version (obviously)

The Team worked directly with over 1,000 artists that were being impacted by the ai theft. Because the team listened to those artists, Glaze accounts for regular art thieves too (i.e. Glaze can’t be removed/cropped etc. like signatures or watermarks when reposted. It’s just part of the image, so even if it ends up on another site and scraped, the Glazing is still in effect)

When you run your artwork through Glaze, no information is sent back to the Team. (Aka, no scraping on their part. The app receives information from the Team (like updates) but no information from you is given to them through the app. Basically Team servers ---> You and NOT Team servers <--->You) One-way data street.

Brief misunderstanding happened over an open-source license for the front-end part of the app. (Used open-source coding for front-end, not knowing that code’s use-license states it is only for other open-source uses, not closed-source (the back-end code of the app is private to prevent counter-counter measure developments)). The Team took down the app until they replaced the front-end code with code written from scratch by the team. They are now not in violation of that open-source license since they are no longer using it. (you have 30 days to remedy a license breach once informed; they did so in 2)

The Team is currently in touch with Japanese artists to better expand the tool for use to protect their art styles

From what I understand of it, Glaze is an AI tool designed to be anti-AI (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: one Terminator robot vs. all the other Terminators 😂)

You can download it from their website and also contact them through email there with any questions, problems, or bugs. The website: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

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i rlly need a new vocabulary i cant keep saying iconic and king over and over again

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if u see me in the tags saying shit like “wow. renowned.” or “his majesty is out here..” mind your business im figuring it out

Transcendent, My Liege

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singing as loud as you want to bears in trees in your car at max volume is definitely more effective than any other form of therapy i’ve received

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i gotta admit i feel a little bad for the staff here because they have the interesting job of making a website work and make money while also marketing it to a userbase who are mostly looking for a website that sucks and doesnt work and does not make money