My final finished piece for the Promises @catradorazine!
Please go order and support the zine, so many amazing artists and writers worked incredibly hard over the past six months for it to come together! It came out amazing!

My final finished piece for the Promises @catradorazine!
Please go order and support the zine, so many amazing artists and writers worked incredibly hard over the past six months for it to come together! It came out amazing!
Harrow forcing Gideon to pretend to be a “proper Ninth cavalier” at Caanan House, keep up the charade of loyalty so long it starts to feel real to both of them and they start feeling things and it’s alarming and they constantly surprise one another with little unexpected nuggets of respect and kindness, how well they seem to fit these playacting roles, it’s—this is—it’s fake dating
This is a fake dating story
what is the difference between :3 and >:3
:3 is silly >:3 is evil :3c is hehe and >:3c is evil hehe
me when I'm silly
“ummmmm ur bra strap is showing :/ ”
i thought this was me at first and i was really confused
omg hi
WE’RE MULTIPLYING
uhhhhhhh
hey
Found what?
This Legendary post
This post is a gem and you have to reblog it or else you lose it
Someone confirm that these are all different people.
LEGENDARY POST
Brutalism is when there’s concrete. The more conk they crete, the more brutalismer it is.
i love that part in gtn when harrow (17) says "Never work with children, Griddle, their prefrontal cortexes aren’t developed." about the teens (13 and 14) like neither is yours babygirl
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
As links (because some of us are on mobile and can't easily copy and paste to our browser), those are:
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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/
kinda fucked up that in NtN we spend all of the John chapters with him telling us (Harrow) how he could make these perfect, living, souless dolls, with beating hearts and breathing lungs and circulating blood. but then we meet his daughter who is DEAD
AND the plot of the first book is caused by a woman who has lived with excruciating cancer for ten THOUSAND years, in service of John. And she only became immortal in the first place because she didn't want to die of said cancer!
Only for John to casually drop in NtN that one of his earliest tricks was curing cancer.
this isn't about where you think your continuous memories start, but rather what you think is the earliest thing you can remember (even if it's only a few seconds or a quick image)
I think age 3, except im not actually sure if that's actually a memory I have and not something I made up/dreamed