All posts by Miiohau

@Amthystreamm if it does it because the organizations training AI don't care about the small number of nightshaded images or have a human in the loop that would catch any errors caused by nightshade or glaze. Nightshade and glaze based on adversarial noise, stable diffusion (the one of the main methods when generative AI started to get big) is trained to removed noise. That should give you an idea of how hard a problem the creators of nightshade and glaze have given themselves.

What I mean by my first sentence is that the two main types of generative AI are large image models and small image models. Large image models are trained on so many images that the small amount of nightshaded or glazed images are a statistical blip what more they are moving beyond the scrap the web phase to a more targeted training regime. How this factors into nightshade and glaze is the training on large image models is depending less on the image tagging models that glaze and nightshade target and more on the context around the image to figure out what is in the image.

Small image models are trained by individual AI artists using hand selected images. Some of them are actually trained on their own mid training output. My point is a human is involved close enough they notice any issues cause by nightshade or glaze (on the flip side they are involved enough they should know that the original artist doesn't want their art used to train AI).

I understand artist want to protect their work from copyright infringement I just don't want them wasting CPU cycles on things that do practically nothing. My best advice is to put their art on sites that have anti scraping terms of use, I have read some judge statements indicate that they think LLM based AI is getting good enough that the organizations can be held to those terms of use. If you want to be really sure put your art behind a log in wall on such sites to really bind the organizations to the anti scraping terms of use. That way they already have a class (the users of that website) to sue any organization that violates those terms of use.

On a postscript I think the robot.txt and related standards need to be updated. They were created in an age when the major web crawlers where search engine indexing bots and the like. Now a days we have a wide variety of web crawlers which site might want to treat differently (for example web archiver can archive all pages that don't create a heavy load on the server including some behind the log in wall, search engine indexing bots are restricted to publicly accessible pages plus meta data on pages behind the log in wall, AI training bots are completely disallowed as one schema a website might want to set up). With such an update it wouldn't matter the size of the organization because a lot of the information they need to know to see if their bot is allowed is machine readable by program as simple and as cpu modest as they web crawler itself.

AI is so old and so broad it is everywhere from spellcheck to video games. But what you are talking about is generative AI. Personally to me it is a tool that speed up art creation. On Nightshade and/or glaze, they don't work that is because generative AI is an out growth of machine learning, which means it is easy to train a model that bypass nightshade and/or glaze.

Now more specific to biology there has been scientists that have applied machine learning techniques (including one derived from generative AI) to things like protein folding and detecting cancer

Congratulations.

All of this sounds like a good idea. Both to get flags higher on the page and to handle flags that contain triggering content when the gender itself isn't triggering. For flags down in the gallery section we can use <gallery type="slideshow"> with the first "image" being Content Warning.png or a more specific version explaining the warning so I don't see a case where we need to use the {{ContentWarning}} template if the only issue is image based.

I don't know what a full on panic attack feels like but I do know what it like to be unable to sleep because of anxiety. I don't know if you also suffer from anxiety in addition to panic attacks but it sounds like you should make sure you have a charged battery light with minimal mental load.

My dad is a techie so I know of some thing that might be especially helpful for you, there are lights that automatically turn on when the power goes out. The one my dad found was a light bulb that only turns on if it would be on if the power was on (how it works is kinda technical but the basics is that it can detect it is on a closed circuit so it knows it is off due to a power outage rather than it's circuit being turned off).

The other thing I can think of is a USB battery backup for a phone. One you can leave plugged in by your bed and can plug your phone plugged in to while you use it to do anything you need it to do to get you through your panic attack.

Glad you found a way to get through your panic attack. Like I said I don't have first hand experience with a panic attack but do know what low level anxiety is like. My final piece of advice is don't worry about being childish when taking steps for your mental health, if you find a night light helps your mental health get and use a night light; if a comfort object (like a stuffed animal) helps use that object.

Upvote. You are one of the users I recognize on sight in the recent changes and know your changes are in good faith and good. You also have the dubious honor of having had three trolls/vandals in the last month alone attempt to vandalize your user page (as can be seen in the Abuse filter log).

Upvote. Once this has been up for 2-3 days either me or urmother57 will review this application and make the final decision but for now it looks like you will gain admin rights at that time.

@Brojogon abuse filter is already installed on this wiki and I just updated the filters based on common themes by the vandals over the previous three months. Hopefully it will be doing more now than just preventing user page vandalism.

With overwhelming community support you are now a Bureaucrat. Congratulations. For the record as a community member and Bureaucrat I support this promotion. You've been a great admin and we'll likely make a great Bureaucrat and it is good to have a backup Bureaucrat (even though that is likely me again given how irregularly I am on the wiki).

It is an backend change to the wiki software. Some templates or javascript extensions may break but most non-technical users won't even see a difference other than the wiki being read-only for ~30 minutes during the upgrade.

I hope you find a solution. In the meantime I updated your profile to reflect that you are on Sabbatical/vacation revert it when/if you find a solution.

With community consent you are now a Content Moderator. Congratulations.

Wait just saw asterclouds has disabled their account, so I don't know who the point person on that page is anymore. As a community member and member of wiki staff I vote yes.

@HelenDaMelon @Urmother57 @YourlocalstupidFtMtherian @AlienWasTaken @WriterThatArts do you want to chime in as well?

I think so but let's also ask @Asterclouds since the are the creator and major contributor to that policy page.

I agree the bad news is Trump longer needs to care about his popularity but that is also the good news. Trump is so self centered he might focus on the things that benefit him rather than the hate he ran on (especially since that hate is only popular with the far right of his base).

It might actually be his follow ons that aren't as self centered and still have a possible pollical future that we should be worried about.

If you are represented by a republican in the House or Senate remind them actual economic and/or legislative work is why they are there, not to push a platform of hate. Not of immigrants, not of Mexicans, not of Asians, not of cross-dressers, not of drag performers and not of the LGBT. Tell them hate is not a viable long term strategy. Tell them hate and Trumpism is a poison pill that is tanking their chances of ever holding office long term. Tell them if they push hate with no solutions their voters will eventually wise up and realize they are a do nothing politician that would have been right in home in the Nazi party.

I (on a personal level) disagree. I think AI should be allowed but as an admin I will follow community consensus. To me AI is a tool to express your identity but again I submit to community consensus.

For anybody worried about the current pollical climate, be active. Vote in every election, even midterms and/or special elections. Support the law firms protecting trans and/or LGBT rights. Push for trans-inclusive polices in your schools and sports teams. Show the haters we will not go quietly into the night.