Hi folks, hope you all are doing well. It’s been a good year for me attending an art college, though one thing has stuck out to me. The use and existence of AI. I know I know; touchy subject as artists that wish it didn’t exist. Whether we like it or not, it sets the bar higher and should motivate us to try something crazy and different. I’m sure you’ve heard this before but that’s not what I'm here to talk about.

I’m sure some of you are aware that Discord recently added a AI bot to their platform which might not be a super big deal for those using it as a form of communication. But for the art communities with possibly 100,000 or more members who are unaware of the art scraping that goes on to train the AI, it’s not a good look. For me, I go in and pay for nitro for bigger file sizes so I can do commissions as I use discord as my main source of commissions. It’s frustrating and makes me not want to use the platform despite its many pros.

Besides the point, I’d like you all to try something to begin to poison ai bots. Some of you maybe using it already or not since Newgrounds is the biggest website I trust that would never use AI to benefit their site. The two websites I suggest are: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ and https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/userguide.html Basically, a filter of random colors is overlayed over your art to confuse the ai and still highlight what makes your art yours. It’s just makes it look a little fuzzy.

As of a few days ago I have begun to use this overlay on everywhere that has AI scraping. It should only take about 5 minutes of your time. Of course you don’t have to but I really love art and I really love the talent I get to see every morning whether it be here or other places.

Please take care of yourselves and keep creating!!

-PSYCH