I've seen more than a few folks on my Mastodon timeline express enthusiasm about Glaze, a system whose goal is to protect artists against style mimicry by generative models.

If you're using this work, or otherwise have heard of it and thought "wow this is neat I'm happy people are doing it", I strongly recommend you read this blog post by security & privacy researchers Nicholas Carlini & Florian Tramèr about evaluating Glaze's claims: https://spylab.ai/blog/glaze/

Glazing over security | SPY Lab

We discuss the security of the Glaze tool, and how the authors' actions may not be in the best interest of their users.

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@tedted security by obscurity will never stop being hilarious

ive made a post about glaze + nightshade before, but didnt feel like dealing with the responses it got anymore
@tedted its literally selling snake oil to people who have their livelihoods threatened, and I feel like that is just royally fucked up