A man swaying to the pull of his surroundings, culture, and past experiences. External factors, affecting his thoughts. Will he have the strength to choose which currents to resist, which influences to follow?
Will he be able to make a deliberate choice and filter only those influences that contribute to his chosen way of thinking?
You may have heard about the ordinary solar eclipse yesterday, but were you also aware of the spectacular Total Cat Eclipse as well? Yes, Cats all over the world decided to get in the way of the sun and block the light... just to annoy you, and to help prepare them for an afternoon nap!
Since their arrival, generative AI models and their trainers have demonstrated their ability to download any online content for model training. For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative AI model against their will. Opt-out lists have been disregarded by model trainers in the past, and can be easily ignored with zero consequences. They are unverifiable and unenforceable, and those who violate opt-out lists and do-not-scrape directives can not be identified with high confidence.
In an effort to address this power asymmetry, we have designed and implemented Nightshade, a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training. 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.
I won't lie,
I wish I could get high,
So I don't just sit in my bed and cry,
Think of bad things and wonder why,
I can't think of cute cats in little bowties.
AI created image using Midjourney. The idea behind this character is an Elven Ranger named Alasse Valthana. We will eventually breathe life into her on the website.
Considering adding the following language to our guidelines for publishers whose titles we carry at Weightless:
"We don't knowingly sell titles that employ generative AI in any capacity. If we find out a particular title was created using AI, we reserve the right to remove AI-generated portions or delete the title from our offerings entirely."
AI generated scene created with #midjourney. The prompt used was: A social media banner image that is designed to look like part of a fantasy map with some trees, mountains, and roads --aspect 7:4 --s 750 --v 6.0