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https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ Finally, we have GLAZE. What Is Glaze? Glaze is a tool to help artists to prevent their artistic styles from being learned and mimicked by new AI-art models such as MidJourney, Stable Diffusion and their variants. It is a collaboration between the University of Chicago SAND Lab and members of the professional artist community, most notably Karla Ortiz. Glaze has been evaluated via a user study involving over 1,100 professional artists. At a high level, here's how Glaze works: Suppose we want to protect artist Karla Ortiz's artwork in her online portfolio from being taken by AI companies and used to train models that can imitate Karla's style. Our tool adds very small changes to Karla's original artwork before it is posted online. These changes are barely visible to the human eye, meaning that the artwork still appears nearly identical to the original, while still preventing AI models from copying Karla's style. We refer to these

While I only started writing journal posts for this group about a year ago, it’s weird that I skirted around the subject of Sonic Forces for so long. I think the main reason is that it’s not easy to talk about Knuckles’ role in that game without directly addressing stuff like its grander narrative and overall quality. I’ll say right now that I’m not the biggest fan, but I can’t help but appreciate the good intentions the developers had when making Forces. It really feels like they were trying to please numerous different people at once and it’s just a shame that there wasn’t enough talent behind the project to make that a reality. With that out of the way, the real story here is Rad Red; talk about 2017 being a landmark year for Knuckles :D . As if it wasn’t cool enough that he returned to playable status within Sonic Mania, it was also revealed that – in Sonic Forces’ plot where Dr. Eggman successfully takes over the world – Knux is the officially named leader of a resistance army