Notices by Ted (tedted@hachyderm.io)

@Nellyaa I'm not an expert so I don't know. It's not at all clear to me that the solution to this problem is technical.

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/

new hobby: adding action lines to my cat pictures

Us: the cats really like their little hammock and sometimes fight for it, let's get them a second little hammock so they can have one each

The cats:

Yesterday I was at the walkout next to Google Zürich to protest layoffs and stand in solidarity with former colleagues. Here's a thread with some notes / personal opinions.

https://www.businessinsider.com/hundreds-google-workers-walk-out-zurich-protest-over-layoffs-2023-3