The prospect of shounen/seinen being seen as more “general audience” not only by publishers but also western consumers is kinda depressing
Me gripping the manga/anime community with the force of a 1000 suns : if you actually listened to mangakas complaints about how these magazine companies are runned and pushed you would understand that josei/shoujo are only “dying”(not really true) due to marketing restrictions/bias and misogyny
Most of the renowned seinen authors use the templates and get inspired by shoujo/josei imagery and storytelling beats for emotional/dramatic narratives , if you want to learn how to do character drama I’m begging you to start reading some shoujo/josei , yes even if it’s trash , you’re missing out on so much content I promise you
its always “shoujo/josei is dying” and never : because men rarely cross demographics the stories in this demographic is barely exposed and the people running these magazines have very narrow ideas and gender biased marketing that is WHY shounen/seinen have not only a high female reader ship but most manga authors choose these specific magazines because they know they’ll get more exposure
planning out outfits for the modern cruxis comic series
read pg 1 here - I’ll update whenever I’m free :’)
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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
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/
reblogging this every fucking time it comes across my dash
Sooo hilarious but I can completely see this being a real conversation between streaming execs 😏
(original vid: Asif Ali - instagram - https://tinyurl.com/2p8jpkzz)
You love to see it. (Not the destruction of trees, obvs, but shitheads meeting their oncoming comeuppance at the hands of trees.)
not to rain on the parade, and i absolutely do hope tree law comes through for the WGA, but this is an EXTREMELY normal sight in LA. i have a whole photo album on my phone filled with photos of mutilated street trees.
LA street trees that get “trimmed” are butchered in this exact way, over and over again, year after year. Particularly targeted are these types of huge ficuses that provide dense, cool, and life-saving shade over bus stops and sidewalks. In this largely treeless, grassless, solar oven of a city they offer some of the only shade relief a pedestrian can find. But their dense foliage and tall crowns obscure store signage, and also we prioritize the needs of air conditioned cars over the needs of human beings, so these trees are often cut back to nubs.
in all but the very richest neighborhoods, los angeles is horrible to its trees. it is an unbelievably hostile, anti-human, anti-poor, anti-green place. this is awful, but it is business as usual.
There are many benefits to being Barbie's cousin
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE CONTEXT HERE
So for those who don't know some merch sources establish Barbie's full name is Barbara Rogers. And Shaggy's full name is Norville Rogers. So some people started to joke some years ago they could be related and we wouldn't know, and little by little the joke turned into an AU or a headcanon for some people
reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics
funnytwittertweets
Get hot water, not boiling hot but almost hotter than you can stand, and put a metal spoon in it for a few seconds. Take the spoon and put it against the mosquito bite for about 30 seconds. Do it a few times if you like. The proteins that cause the itching are susceptible to heat and break down.
WHY DON’T THEY TEACH THIS SHIT I have four decades of suffering from skeeter bites behind me
One study on 146 individuals treated with a Bite-Away heat pen found similarly effective results from heat treatment; thankfully, spoons dunked in water cost way less than the Bite-Away’s 30 bucks.
You can also blast the bite with a hair dryer - learned this from my mom and it works great
ugh! i just wish high-quality content could be seamlessly delivered to me in an algorithmic feed! i hate the friction of curating my own personal experience—i need a machine to tell me what i like
it's just soooo outdated for a social media site to show me chronological posts i chose to see. what am i, a BOOMER?? no! it's 2023. i want the apps i use to treat me like a fucking idiot, incapable of developing my own thoughts or good taste. because that's the industry standard. why would it be standard if it's bad!!
I will live with my sorrow, I will live my own life!
FINAL FANTASY X (2001)
Sewer Cleaning
Image description: a painting of two angels dressed in sanitation worker uniforms with glowing heads and white wings. They are stood next to an open manhole with light emanating from it and red tentacles slithering from it. End description.
I work at indeed.com my job is throwing all of the applications away
i took up some requests from gundam twitter but they all must be about Quattro Bajeena
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Nintendo Consoles Through the Generations
Had the idea of “what if I did models of the Nintendo consoles as if they were rendered on themselves?” and I did just that!
I plan on uploading timelapses of the process for each one. I have other timelapses on my youtube channel right now! Check it out, if you’d like!
This is really, really clever.