Very little is talked about how to protect your works against AI being trained on artist works when they can just throw in an artists name to replicate their style and such.

So here's something that can help prevent your works being added to the training data for AI.

You may of heard of tools like Nightshade, and Glaze, and these are two sets of tools that can poison the AI data set to combat generative AI. These are tools that came out in 2023, tools that you can download and use for free from the University of Chicago page.

Glaze tries to prevent style copying of an artist.
Nightshade tries to distort what's actually in the image, so a car could be an animal, or whatever.

It should be noted that these tools aren't future proof and they can be broken when new AI models are created that can figure these things out, but it will at the very least slow them down.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html

KI-Raubzüge jenseits aller Dimensionen!

Meta hat sich an Millionen von Büchern bedient, um seine KI zu trainieren. Ungefragt, unbezahlt, ungerecht von hier bis zum anderen Ende des Planeten und über mehrere Generationen hinweg.

Meinen kompletten Beitrag dazu findet ihr auf meiner Page:

https://timokuemmel.wordpress.com/

#writingcommunity
Have your books been used to train AI?
I tried this, none of my books came up, fortunately. Then I tried the name of a late bestseller author and multiple of her books were listed.
"Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

Petit zine sur le coût environnemental des IA génératives Présenté par Nestor le castor !

1/3
#mastoart #zine #noAI

It's been a while since I shared any smaller scenes. So, here is some coastal dynamics for you. Nothing special, I love the patterns, the shapes, and the energy of the water moving around the rocks.

This art is incredible.

Source: https://www.patreon.com/simz

Important note for any eBay users: They've updated their Privacy Notice (https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behaviour-policies/user-privacy-notice-privacy-policy?id=4260#section12) with verbiage specifically to enable the use of your personal data to "train, test, validate and align" both their AI models and third party AI models. If you're in the EEA, The UK or Switzerland, you can opt-out at https://accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences. If you're outside those areas, you're SOL. #ebay #ai #noai

Thinking about genAI vs human intelligence.

genAI hallucinates, unavoidably.

Humans make mistakes, unavoidably.

Mistakes aren't hallucinations. They are a step in a truth-finding process. They help the human who makes the mistake (and their fellow humans) to improve their criteria for true or false.

Hallucinations, when detected, are a trigger for the model to produce answers whose lack of validated truth is less detectable.

Relevant clumsiness vs sophisticated emptyness.

Yesterday, someone described to me a future in which most literature was AI-generated, and real books were "artisan".

I'm still trying to find all the words to explain why that wouldn't be okay.

The now-famous "why should I read something you couldn't be bothered to write?" line lands, yes. But deeper than that, writing is an essential part of thinking and imagination.

And human thought and imagination must never be outsourced or replaced.

"I've become quite wary of the power to provoke emotions."

In today's Guardian. A quiet, probing and nuanced interview by Alex Clark with the great novelist Kazuo Ishiguru.

On writing, on generational changes in writers, on ignoring genre boundaries, on the difficulty of preserving integrity as a writer when genAI gets good at manipulating our emotions.

Set up to promote a re-edition of one of his novels, but very much worth reading.

‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/08/ai-will-become-very-good-at-manipulating-emotions-kazuo-ishiguro-on-the-future-of-fiction-and-truth?CMP=share_btn_url

Are you sick and tired of repetitive AI-generated slop in your streaming music?
A reminder that if you're using it as background and don't need to hear any particular song or album, there are many wonderful public radio stations that stream for free on the internet worldwide. I really like KMHD Portland, KEXP Seattle, and KCRW Santa Monica, but there are numerous others! None of these stations have ads and you'll hear stuff picked by actual humans.
#music #noAI #PublicRadio
Edit: fixed typo
Second edit: if you want to share your favorite streaming public radio stations I am super into it! I can always add more to my rotation