I mean, is the goal to prevent training or poison training. Yes nightshade will never prevent your work from being trained on, but hopefully models don't know it's poisoned and it sows model dysfunction.

At the very least it makes the case that the artist believed strongly enough to prevent people from using their art without permission that they use increasingly radical methods.

It makes it so crystal clear that these shitheads are acting in bad faith when they're circumventing custom made solutions to keep them from using the art.

As if a sign on your website saying "not for use in AI training" shouldn't be enough. Like imagine I posted art with the message "not for use in movies" and then it got used in a movie. Open and shut.

Yeah fuck this defeatism. Anything you can do you do it. Same thing with anything you strongly disagree with.

Even if you've failed don't give the impression that this was something you went along with. Don't make it seem like this was just the natural zeitgeist and no one fought it.

Hopefully there will be history in the future, and if there is it should record the fact that there were once humans who tried to be a nuisance over what they believed in even when all the money in the world was against them.

You know we could just upload an unedited photo to a platform, and then that platform keeps it unedited on a server. Then before exposing to web uses the latest poisoning service periodically. Remove the old edited photo, and apply again to the "raw" with the new updated service. Problem solved. Not super efficient, but still a solution made while shitting on the toilet. I'm sure there's better.

2 things.

1. Master locks are the easiest to pick and still the most popular. I don't see you advocating for leaving your bike unlocked because it's inevitable that the bike thieves win.

2. That money is fake and recirculated like the air in an airplane. That's literally what people mean when they talk about the AI bubble. All these companies are incestuous as fuck. Google invests in Nvidia who invests in Anthropic who invests in Microsoft who invest in OpenAI who invest in Nvidia who invest in Google. There's no NEW money coming in. That has ALREADY dried up. They're literally passing money in a circle. That's WHY it's a bubble, and that's how it's already popping.

Personally I think we should watch Oracle. They're by far the most over leveraged. At least publicly. When they fall over, everyone else will follow. The big ones like Microsoft and Google are at least diversified and might survive, but the bubble pop will eventually catch up. OpenAI already spend $1.22 for ever $1 they make, and their expenses grow in lock step with their demand. Sam Altman's plan to make it all profitable is to build AGI and ask it to figure it out for him because, and I cannot stress this enough, he. is. a. moron.

Your defeatist attitude is what they want because the more people that believe that, the longer the bubble is sustained.

Take heart. They are weaker than you realise. They are not infallible, their armor is paper.

I'm drunk and apologize for my flowery language.

Happy Friday, the fight is winnable.

I love you all.