Yara Eid, A Palestinian Woman Speaks Out And Calls Out Journalists For Misleading Language.

I am super against light pollution, and have been for decades

but I am also super annoyed by the way it's framed as "without light pollution you can see how beautiful the night sky is" way more prominently than it's framed as "hey, did you ever stop to think of how much energy/resources/money are literally wasted by having so much light shine up into the sky?"

so people get the idea that light pollution can only be remedied by eliminating all night-time light, which would make being outside at night very inconvenient, instead of by making night-time light shine only on the ground where, y'know, the people who need it are

A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

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GoldCanines: “I had lots of questions on how I go about my shading ! ✨

Here is how I pick my colors, determine my layers, and lay out my shading !”

Source: GoldCanines on Twitter

Here's uBlock Origin's official guide to bypassing youtube's anti-adblock popups, updated weekly. Please share widely. Don't reward google for their predatory anti-consumer bullshit

Quick PSA, if you get one of those "Work scanned, AI use detected" comments on AO3, just mark them as spam.

Some moron apparently built a bot to annoy or prank hundreds of authors.

There is no scanning process, your work doesn't actually resemble AI writing, it's all bullshit. Mark the comment as spam (on AO3, not the email notification you got about the comment!) and don't let it get to you.

Ominous Rebellon Lore + Worldbuilding dump 1

CW/TW: implied dark content

Nyher the Unicorn- god of medicines, herbs, and guidance is one of the four gods to survive the last incident created by Ash. one of their specialties is to make medicine from natural growth herbs without causing extinction of the plant itself. thought out history, they're well-known as the flamboyant gardener or nature's flamboyant guardian. along with tales of the god's willingness to help the sick within the mortal realm in a form that doesn't bring fear to these seeking their medical help and guidance especially children. after the incident Nyher lived and hid amongst the mortal population helping those mostly affected by Ash's actions. along with giving medicine.

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Elir The Crow- God of Death and Underworld, lover and one of the ruler duo with Xuhdis doesn’t like being involved with moral conflict and one of the surviving gods like Nyher, his lover, Eanh, and Itris known as The Hade type within the old gods. serious and keep to himself.

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Xuhdis The Raven- God of guiding lost soul to the afterlife, between living and dead, lover and one of the ruler duo with Elir sympathetic towards the innocent souls who enter his and his partner's realm too soon. disagree with how some cultures portray him.

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Itris The Cat- God of trickery and Deceive portray as a fox in some tales the tricker god can fool anyone who are foolish enough to fall in his trap. the other gods didn't trust him around sensitive topics and discussions. currently captured by Ash as his prisoner/trophy. Trying to convince Ash to let him free even tho he has an part of his dictorship

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Eanh The Owl- God of Knowledge hid among the mortal population pretending to be a normal owl running a privately owned (and few shadow) library for the public to learn some knowledge. along with the helping Nyher at time.

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Their region currency is Seaglass (common to rare by color & size) common 1 dollar, uncommon 5-10 dollar, rare 20-45 dollar, and extremely rare 50-100+ dollar (if you count inflation)

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Shadows and Blacklists markets run by individuals, private owners, and communities are common due to the strict laws and regulations but they get often shut down or raided by the law enforcement

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The Elites (rich/wealthy class) are calling the shoots and are allowed to have illegal items if their leader isn't in a bad mood. They either gain their wealth from illegal and legal activities (like "Sickdog"), gerenational wealth within the family, or new money

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Moonlight hidden/removed their last name as a form of protection of their family from the corrpurt loyalist of Ash's lapdogs, while Snow removed his legal last name to have no more contact/connection towards his biological family

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Everyone in Moon's small group of a team/closed knited friendship-family bond all have codenames expect her due to her name being on public legal records and paper from a international police burst on illegal sex industry business that was breaking international laws that she was a victim to.

Just so everyone is aware:

An international group of qualified mushroom identifiers who do worldwide identification in emergency cases have identified the Shroomers App as a potentially very dangerous system that could kill you if you try to use it to identify edible mushrooms. They use AI to generate almost all of their content, including their identification profiles on their app as well as their books and other materials. Not only is this unethical from a content creation standpoint, it is also extremely dangerous.

DO NOT USE APPS FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES BEYOND SIMPLE CURIOSITY. A MISTAKE WHEN IDENTIFYING AN EDIBLE COULD COST YOU YOUR LIFE. DO NOT EAT ANY FORAGED MUSHROOM YOU CANNOT IDENTIFY YOURSELF BY SIGHT OR HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED IN PERSON BY SOMEONE WHO CAN.

ONLY BUY BOOKS FROM REPUTABLE SOURCES AND AT THIS POINT THAT MEANS ASKING EXPERIENCED PEOPLE WHAT BOOKS THEY USE.

Mushrooms are fun, amazing organisms. Enjoy safely.

Day 2 and 3 for @espilver-week

Espio rizz/charm his boyfriend (yes he's wearing TMOSTH clothes for day 2)

Day 1 | Day 2 & 3 (you're here) | Day

hello beloveds ☺️