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2024 has been a seemingly quiet year, but sprinkled with art nonetheless. I have had little energy to dedicate to posting on web and social media, so there are several finished works just sitting on my desk. There are paintings I have created for myself, others commissioned and published, some awaiting release. There are countless sketches that dot my notebooks, waiting to be developed. I am still in energy saving mode, and my good intentions for this year are to get back into gear with the creation of new paintings. And their publication 😅

Thank you, reader, for sharing this art journey with me.

Nightshade is a new tool artists can employ to disrupt AI Models. This is important – since Ai models cannot “forget” they ate copyrighted material even though the owners of said stuff ask for removal, well… let’s give the models something bad to eat. Something that will corrupt the data already inside. Guten appetit, stronzi.

“More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into “poison” samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space.” (from What is nightshade, https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu)

💚 Congratulations to all the researchers and artists who worked on this tool.

This said, right now Nightshade is available only for powerful desktop devices, but soon will be available via Browser. Most interesting, in fact, is Web Glaze, allowing artists to glaze their images even if they’re unable to install Glaze.

“How can I help support Nightshade and Glaze?
Thank you so much for thinking of us. It is important to us that we not only continue to provide Glaze to visual creators for free, but also extend its protective capabilities. If you or your organization may be interested in pitching in to support and advance our work, please contact our colleague Joshua Leavitt to learn more about gift opportunities for Glaze (managed by the University of Chicago campus offices).” (from FAQ, https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu)

Other than this, please support the project by following it on:
X/Twitter: @TheGlazeProject IG: theglazeproject

Article written on 12/02/2024 – Elena Greenedera Zambelli #noai

⌛ In the picture: “Art vs artist 2023” – a way to stop and look back, take stock of a past year.

📘 A year with some noteworthy satisfactions, the publication of several publications with my illustrations: Autumn twilight, Shadow of the black rose, The journals of Kaz the Minotaur: the lost colony were released with the Dragonlance Nexus – the latter with the famous writer Richard Knaak. More illustrations for projects to be published next year.

🤝 Various private commissions, often full beautiful collaborations with people that opened for me doors to their cherised, secret worlds.

🎨 Few “personal” illustrations or in general creations – as often happens, sometimes a pencil sketch is enough for me to express what’s on my mind – and, who knows, maybe one day I’ll go back to expressing myself more.

🎭A difficult year from a health point of view, which started badly and ended badly; a year in which art was a crutch to move forward and lose myself in a world where things can go the way I want.

💻 A year in which I worked hard on my private website: a collection of my latest paintings in a place where I can take all the space I want to tell, as well as show, each painting – a private space outside of the big platforms like Deviantart and Artstation, which from my point of view they betrayed the world of artists, making all the contents available to the big AI companies when few still knew what was happening, so that Ai generated images suffocated the space meant for art created by humans.

Thank you, reader, for sharing this art journey with me.

Article written on 03/01/2024 – No unauthorized reproduction. – Elena Greenedera Zambelli #noai