This excellent comic on the history of Luddism by Tom Humberstone https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite led me to this site with folks developing 'Glaze' which is a thing artists are using to mess with AI trying to scrape their art. Check it out here:
@sarajw Exactly. And so many examples and quotes and SO well laid out, for sure. Graphic novels and comics like this are underrated for teaching history.
@jake4480 it's interesting because even if this "copy protection" can technically be broken, from a legal perspective there's probably a big difference between scraping images that are freely available to download (still more of a legal gray zone) and reverse engineering and removing what is specifically intended as a copy protection.
@spinning_bird yes - and did you see how tough it would be to undo? It's interesting how it's being done, how it's more of a scramble to make weird results than prevention, which is genius
@jake4480 I didn't look very deeply into how it's done. They say it's "a transformation of the image in a dimension that humans do not perceive", which is curious.
What even are the dimensions by which an AI categorizes an image, and that we can't perceive? Or where changes to these dimensions aren't perceivable to us either 🤔
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