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The Glaze Project, at UChicago

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The Glaze Project, at UChicago

@TheGlazeProject

Official twitter for UChicago Glaze/Nightshade to protect artists against invasive AI. Moved to bsky (@TheGlazeProject.bsky.social) 4.8M/1.9M downloads!

Chicago, IL

glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

Joined March 2023

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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Nov 15, 2024
As we depart this dumpster fire for BlueSky (@ TheGlazeProject.bsky.social), I will leave this article pinned here. This is the definitive article of who we are, how we got here, and why we do what we do.
Melissa Heikkilä
@Melissahei
Nov 13, 2024
Meet @TheGlazeProject, the AI lab behind Glaze and Nightshade, two prominent weapons in an artist’s arsenal against nonconsensual AI scraping. The lab wants to tilt the balance of power from Big Tech back to individual creators. But are their tools enough?technologyreview.com/2024/11/13/110…
The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab) (@theglazeproject.bsky.social)
From bsky.app
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Jan 19, 2024
Today is the day. Nightshade v1.0 is ready. Performance tuning is done, UI fixes are done. You can download Nightshade v1.0 from nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu Please read the what-is page and also the User's Guide on how to run Nightshade. It is a bit more involved than Glaze
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Oct 24, 2023
By now, I'm guessing most have already seen the news on our new project, Nightshade. Lots of artists sharing it, but here's the article from MIT Technology Review (thank you to the wonderful @Melissahei), and a thread explaining its goals and design.
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
From technologyreview.com
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Feb 8, 2024
AI bros pushing hard on misinformation campaigns that claiming Nightshade is illegal or its users can be held liable for harm to ai models. I can't get over the entitlement needed to think everyone on the Internet must make their content suitable for your profit taking scheme.
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Jun 20, 2024
Hi all. We wanted to share an update with you. Today there was a paper uploaded that showed a new attack against Glaze. The researchers shared their paper with us before releasing it, giving us a chance to read about their results. Let us share some results of what we found 1/🧵
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Apr 15, 2024
Well that didn't take long... Glaze 2.0 is here. Improved robustness for all art styles but particularly flat color styles. Addressed patch artifacts. Improved efficiency (~50% speedup) and support for Mac GPUs. Mac M1/2/3 support is here, Mac Intel coming this week.
The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Apr 14, 2024
Glaze news: We're getting ready to do a major update to Glaze. Glaze 2.0 makes fundamental changes to the core glaze algorithm to improve its robustness on all models, increases protection strength for anime/flat color styles, and even runs a bit faster than Glaze 1.
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
May 28, 2023
Artists, calling your attention to a new tool. Mist works internally similar to glaze, but demonstrated stronger results against Img2Img. We believe bec it runs many more iterations than Glaze's maximum rendering setting. Cool results & glaze will add these settings n next update
Jon Lam #CreateDontScrape
@JonLamArt
May 28, 2023
ARTISTS!! Good news. Here’s another tool to help you protect your art with Image Cloaking. Check it out!! mist-project.github.io/index_en.html?…
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Jan 19, 2024
Quick thread on common questions. 1. no, NS does not scrape/copy/train on your art. It works perfectly fine in offline mode. Install, turn off wifi, then run. After dedicating 14+ months to this, folks who accuse us of trying to steal art will be blocked without a response.
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
May 23, 2024
I wanted to share some news. It's early, but it's a huge step in the right direction. This week, the IL state senate passed two bills protecting artists against generative AI, including a bill that allows artists to sue those who train LORAs on their art without consent.
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Jan 19, 2024
Replying to @TheGlazeProject
Quick notes 1. probably not best idea to announce an image as poison, kinda defeats the purpose 2. a shaded image is not glazed. If you want protection from mimicry, do not post your art with only nightshade. 3. NS is memory sensitive. If u have big apps running, close them first
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Aug 1, 2023
Hi all! We've been busy on Glaze related projects. Happy to announce that webglaze, the Glaze web service is now ready for new users. If you already have a GPU and it works well, then please keep using that. If you have a mac, or no GPU or no computer even, webglaze can help. 🧵
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Jan 19, 2024
Replying to @TheGlazeProject
Folks. This version does not include glaze. We will work on an integrated version of glaze+ns. For now if you want benefits of both, you should shade first, glaze last. But note that artifacts might be more visible. The integrated version will fix this issue.
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Jun 27, 2023
Another big day. The big big Glaze 1.0 update is out. New core optimization function makes Glaze MUCH more subtle. Now works well for most flat-color styles, comics, anime, cartoons. Nearly invisible on most textured art images. Also brand new website! glaze.cs.uchicago.edu
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The Glaze Project, at UChicago
@TheGlazeProject
Apr 14, 2024
Glaze news: We're getting ready to do a major update to Glaze. Glaze 2.0 makes fundamental changes to the core glaze algorithm to improve its robustness on all models, increases protection strength for anime/flat color styles, and even runs a bit faster than Glaze 1.
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