#Crowdsourcing Project

[aroaceleovaldez]

out of curiosity, who are some artists in the riordanverse fandom who you consider to be "popular" or well-known? either currently, at a particular point in the fandom, or just in general.

#pjo #riordanverse #i have a project idea and it involves making a list #and while i have A List i might as well crowdsource some research cause i do not see every corner of the fandom #also if you're gonna say me at least name someone else too #i know about myself already. or at least i'd certainly hope so #i wanna make sure i have my bases covered

[bookwyrminspiration]

hey. if anyone's willing to lend a hand for my final project. could you make up some random nonsense words in chat pretty please?

#quil's unholy underworld #not just keysmashes #put like. a random string of letters together #like toikif. or walpet #i don't wanna have to come up with all of them #i will need. many #so so many #like I can but also. curious if I could crowdsource any of this #(to be clear this is perfectly allowed for my project I promise)

[yourfavelovesbearsintrees]

Ena Shinonome from Project SEKAI loves Bears In Trees

#ena shinonome #project sekai #bears in trees #your fave loves bears in trees #mod lemonade #crowdsourced

[imperial-nuisance-rudje]

Normal things like writing a song for your blorbo in a conlang but will also require you to pull in a Latin-knower

Also possibly romanization of and pronunciation guides for a specific dialogue option in every language it exists in, to see which fits the song best

Normal.

#trying to remember the last time I was this down bad #because the ut project wasn't this intense #that was always meant to be crowdsourced work #every step of this will just be me. #local moonoid composing Zenos fansongs using famicom noises

[changelingbaby]

curious: if you had to choose between a modern adaptation of king lear or the winter's tale, what would you choose? and what would you like to see in the adaptation?

#yes im crowdsourcing ideas for my final project #shakespeare #the winter's tale #king lear #english majors #im looking at you #literature #since we read a modern adaptation of king lear in class im leaning towards the winter's tale but i have no idea what i'd do with it #so. ya know. any ideas would be appreciated

[deadcrow-donteat]

hi hello we're working on a project about medical ableism for school and were wondering if anyone had experiences they'd be willing to share for us to reference. the final product won't be shared with anyone besides my teachers, and if i do end up sharing it elsewhere i'll be sure to ask people if they're still okay with me using what they've said.

#disabled #ableism #medical ableism #disability #ableist #neurodivergent #neurodivergency #research project #does this count as crowdsourcing lmao

[asexual-levia-tan]

genuinely wondering if i should extend my services as a person who is caught up to the normal mode story to record and upload chapters (by request)..............?

#wwaffles bein' an idiot #wwaffles plays o.m #i know im not the only person who is so maybe we can do one of those uhh #crowdsourced(?) projects for uploading things like devilgrams and storyline content #another fandom i was in started that up around the time that game closed down in the west #i know this isnt like that but

[not-terezi-pyrope]

Often when I post an AI-neutral or AI-positive take on an anti-AI post I get blocked, so I wanted to make my own post to share my thoughts on "Nightshade", the new adversarial data poisoning attack that the Glaze people have come out with.

I've read the paper and here are my takeaways:

Firstly, this is not necessarily or primarily a tool for artists to "coat" their images like Glaze; in fact, Nightshade works best when applied to sort of carefully selected "archetypal" images, ideally ones that were already generated using generative AI using a prompt for the generic concept to be attacked (which is what the authors did in their paper). Also, the image has to be explicitly paired with a specific text caption optimized to have the most impact, which would make it pretty annoying for individual artists to deploy.

While the intent of Nightshade is to have maximum impact with minimal data poisoning, in order to attack a large model there would have to be many thousands of samples in the training data. Obviously if you have a webpage that you created specifically to host a massive gallery poisoned images, that can be fairly easily blacklisted, so you'd have to have a lot of patience and resources in order to hide these enough so they proliferate into the training datasets of major models.

The main use case for this as suggested by the authors is to protect specific copyrights. The example they use is that of Disney specifically releasing a lot of poisoned images of Mickey Mouse to prevent people generating art of him. As a large company like Disney would be more likely to have the resources to seed Nightshade images at scale, this sounds like the most plausible large scale use case for me, even if web artists could crowdsource some sort of similar generic campaign.

Either way, the optimal use case of "large organization repeatedly using generative AI models to create images, then running through another resource heavy AI model to corrupt them, then hiding them on the open web, to protect specific concepts and copyrights" doesn't sound like the big win for freedom of expression that people are going to pretend it is. This is the case for a lot of discussion around AI and I wish people would stop flagwaving for corporate copyright protections, but whatever.

The panic about AI resource use in terms of power/water is mostly bunk (AI training is done once per large model, and in terms of industrial production processes, using a single airliner flight's worth of carbon output for an industrial model that can then be used indefinitely to do useful work seems like a small fry in comparison to all the other nonsense that humanity wastes power on). However, given that deploying this at scale would be a huge compute sink, it's ironic to see anti-AI activists for that is a talking point hyping this up so much.

In terms of actual attack effectiveness; like Glaze, this once again relies on analysis of the feature space of current public models such as Stable Diffusion. This means that effectiveness is reduced on other models with differing architectures and training sets. However, also like Glaze, it looks like the overall "world feature space" that generative models fit to is generalisable enough that this attack will work across models.

That means that if this does get deployed at scale, it could definitely fuck with a lot of current systems. That said, once again, it'd likely have a bigger effect on indie and open source generation projects than the massive corporate monoliths who are probably working to secure proprietary data sets, like I believe Adobe Firefly did. I don't like how these attacks concentrate the power up.

The generalisation of the attack doesn't mean that this can't be defended against, but it does mean that you'd likely need to invest in bespoke measures; e.g. specifically training a detector on a large dataset of Nightshade poison in order to filter them out, spending more time and labour curating your input dataset, or designing radically different architectures that don't produce a comparably similar virtual feature space. I.e. the effect of this being used at scale wouldn't eliminate "AI art", but it could potentially cause a headache for people all around and limit accessibility for hobbyists (although presumably curated datasets would trickle down eventually).

All in all a bit of a dick move that will make things harder for people in general, but I suppose that's the point, and what people who want to deploy this at scale are aiming for. I suppose with public data scraping that sort of thing is fair game I guess.

Additionally, since making my first reply I've had a look at their website:

Used responsibly, Nightshade can help deter model trainers who disregard copyrights, opt-out lists, and do-not-scrape/robots.txt directives. It does not rely on the kindness of model trainers, but instead associates a small incremental price on each piece of data scraped and trained without authorization. Nightshade's goal is not to break models, but to increase the cost of training on unlicensed data, such that licensing images from their creators becomes a viable alternative.

Once again we see that the intended impact of Nightshade is not to eliminate generative AI but to make it infeasible for models to be created and trained by without a corporate money-bag to pay licensing fees for guaranteed clean data. I generally feel that this focuses power upwards and is overall a bad move. If anything, this sort of model, where only large corporations can create and control AI tools, will do nothing to help counter the economic displacement without worker protection that is the real issue with AI systems deployment, but will exacerbate the problem of the benefits of those systems being more constrained to said large corporations.

Kinda sucks how that gets pushed through by lying to small artists about the importance of copyright law for their own small-scale works (ignoring the fact that processing derived metadata from web images is pretty damn clearly a fair use application).

#not-terezi-speaks #ai #nightshade

[iwritetragedies-notsins]

everything I write is co-written by my instagram followers

#crowdsourcing for ideas again #should really start keeping lists of people who contribute ideas for a special thanks section in future programs #next procrastination project lol #back by midnight play

[librarycards]

hi, do you happen to have any writings about gender written by transfem butches and/or transfem poc that you'd recommend?

Yes! first, I recommend checking out this post, where I recommend / crowdsource some readings on butch trans womanhood / TMA subjectivity. I also highly recommend Emi Koyama's blog/body of work, b. binaohan's numerous writings and books, and the Trans Woman Writer's Collective (founded by Jamie Berrout, a powerhouse author/editor in her own right). My friend Valerie (@grimesapologist) has an excellent pamphlet out with them!

Some transfem/trans woman/TMA (acknowledging that there is as much variation in gender among TMA people as TME people, though the former group are systemically foreclosed from gender creativity in ways TME people are, within queer and trans circles, marginally permitted) writers of color I recommend include

micha cárdenas

Meredith Talusan

Vivek Shraya

jia qing wilson-yang

Ryka Aoki

Jules Gill-Peterson

Kai Cheng Thom

Trish Salah

[I've linked to my personal favorite/most influential work by most of the listed authors]

There are some great, relevant readings in the anthology Trap Door: Trans Cultural Projection and the Politics of Visibility. Lastly, this paper, A Tranifesto For the Dolls in Transgender Studies Quarterly is something of a who's who in this cohort of junior scholars in trans/feminist of color theory. Very exciting piece based off a very exciting conference roundtable that I actually attended back in 2022!

hope this helps :)

#book rec #ask #anonymous #readings #trans #transfeminism

[weaselmcdiesel]

Want to help me with an assignment by talking about your pet?

Hi!! I have an assignment to make a piece of art using crowdsourcing. My idea involves collecting a lot of text about people's pets! Anything about them, what you like about them, a description of their personality or appearance, something funny they did--really anything. In the end, I want to use all the text to make something interesting (I haven't decided the specifics yet). I'll upload the finished project here when it's done! (it's due a week from now, March 12th)

How to be a part of this project:

Reply to this post or reblog and put in the tags or in the post itself anything you want about your pet. You can also send me an ask if you want, but I will not post any of these asks.

If you want to speak about a pet that has passed, please indicate somewhere in your reply that it has passed. I intend to use that information in the piece itself.

You can include a picture of your pet ONLY IF YOU WANT! Pictures aren't necessary but I might figure out a way to incorporate them.

Important:

The text you provide is not going to be credited to you/your url, everything will be anonymous.

I'll be reblogging this every now and then to help get a lot of different responses :) Sorry if you get sick of seeing this post! Also, if you don't have a pet or you don't want to talk about your pet, it would help out if you would reblog this anyway! But ofc, you don't have to.

#weasel speaks #i really don't know what tags to use for this #pets #pet #crowdsourcing

[neurasthnia]

spanish resource lists for learners

a list of lists!! levels are estimated.

refold has a crowdsourced resource list for spanish, curated & with notes | A1 to C2

dreamingspanish on reddit has a crowdsourced spreadsheet with over 90 channels geared towards learners | A1 to C2

learn natively has a huge deck of spanish books sorted by difficulty by learners | A1 to C2

prensa escrita has a list of news websites sorted by country & sometimes city | B1 to C1 probably

the CI wiki has an editable list of CI resources and a couple of native content links | A1 to like B2?

comprehensible hub has tons of spanish podcasts for learners | A1 to B2

letterboxd has a ton of very fun #español lists, e.g. movies mentioned in the wild project podcast, latin american female directors, made in puerto rico | ~B2 to C2

there are also a ton of moocs in spanish for intermediate to advanced learners (moocs are online courses, usually free) | B1 to C2

#spanish langblr #spanish notes #* #langblr #language learning #spanish language #perhaps this is unsurprising after my last post #we're compiling babeyyyyy

[digitalnewberry]

Allow us to introduce ourselves...

We're the digital initiatives team at the Newberry Library and our job passion job (that we really like) is to bring the digital collections of the Newberry to YOU, dear reader. On this blog we'll be sharing interesting collection items, educational resources, and crowdsourcing projects. If you want to get in touch with us, you can send us an ask on here or email us at dis [at] newberry [dot] org. We're also going to keep a running list of our favorite resources on this post so that you can come back here and check them out at any time.

Contribute to collection access & research

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Explore our curated collections

Postcard Sender: send vintage postcards to your friends for a holiday or just for fun

Coloring Books: download and color in your own version of these vintage postcards

Humanities resources (for classrooms & lifelong learners)

Digital Collections for the Classroom: primary sources selected by educators, with essays and discussion questions for use in the humanities classroom

Midwest Time Machine: travel to the past via first-hand accounts from letters, diaries, and rare books in the Newberry's collections

Seeing Race Before Race: A Closer Look: explore how manuscripts, printed books, visual art, and maps show race-making at work around the world before 1800

Map resources (for people who love maps)

Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: explore how county borders in the United States changed over the course of centuries

Mapping Movement: read about "maps of movement" from hundreds of years of history

And of course, you can always peruse the hundreds of thousands of digitized items at collections.newberry.org

p.s. our cover image is from this very cool map

#newberry library #special collections #digital humanities #libraries #chicago

[greaterspawnislands]

hi! hope you don't mind me asking, but do you have any tips on writing hc!phil? he's gonna be in a fic i'm working on and i don't want to accidentally make him ooc if i can help it lol

HI. sorry this is late i was at a poetry open mic. but i have ur answer! shoutout philza nation discord i crowdsourced them for answers cause my brain was so broken by today's lore /pos

I think there's a few important aspects to his character that you'd wanna focus on beyond the like. Typical phil cubito-ness. the first is hc!phil's relationship with time.

"hardcore Philza writing that rings true to me often has a really chill, almost meditative element, especially with regards to time and completing things. It doesn't really matter whether he finishes today, there's always tomorrow. He's not going to give up or get frustrated (redstone sometimes excluded lmao), he's not intimidated by the idea that something's going to take a lot of time or effort." @the-arctic-commune

I'll be paraphrasing some of my other friends who contributed (thank u ty, xeph, rakk, and talon!!), but i felt like this quote is a standout in terms of how hardcore phil operates...there's no real end date to his story barring some accidental disaster that will cut his life short. he's free to take his time and lose time entirely as he works on his projects. ccphil before has spoken about (and implied today with the qphil lore) that being in hardcore causes some time dilation issues - what seemed like a week to the crows was Weeks upon Weeks in hardcore time. but for hc!phil, that time passes all the same, and it's not really a stressful thing within hardcore. the time is gonna pass all the same.

also, hardcore!phil is an archeologist. within the canon as it's currently establish, hc!phil isn't the one building those big projects. he's uncovering them as he moves through the world, maybe you could view it as restoring them, but he spends his time uncovering the histories of the deities and what happened before he arrived in this world. he views the world as something beautiful to be observed rather than something he's creating, if that makes sense.

aaaand also hardcore phil is easily the most carefree of his cubitos. he's still got plenty of classic phil anxiety and wouldn't take unnecessary risks, but he's the only living thing he has to keep track of in this world. this enables him to be a bit more of a bastard than other worlds - the most likely to "coo at an animal and then kill it to laugh at the crows" in the words of @manmadesunshine lol.

and he's also the most carefree because he's able to fly, of course. you can't ever forget the flying <3

any other hc!phil loreheads r more than welcome to add on!!! but i hope this gives someee subtle flavoring to ur hc!phil writing!

#again thank u philza nation discord for helpin me out mwah love yall #duckmumbo #philza s4 #philza

[lets-steal-an-archive]

Actors and writers want fans to help their Hollywood strike. Here’s how.

How are strikers encouraging audiences to get involved?

SAG-AFTRA and WGA members have used social media to spread information about the strike, detailing how viewers can support entertainment workers’ demands for higher minimum pay, improved safety and more streaming residuals. Among their recommendations for aiding the strike efforts are sharing, liking and commenting on posts about the recently expired SAG-AFTRA contract because “actors are working people just like everyone else.”

“There’s a lot of misconception that our union is about stars and celebrities,” said Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA’s national executive director and chief negotiator.

Most of the guild’s 160,000 members, he said, are “working actors who are trying to make a living, pay their bills, pay their rent.”

Actors and writers are encouraging fans to join the picket line in their local area to increase strike visibility. They say people can bring signs, water and snacks to picketers. Union-allied organizations such as the Directors Guild of America, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States have thrown their support behind the strike effort in person and online, joining a broader coalition of unions pushing against mistreatment in the workplace.

Crabtree-Ireland said strike supporters could aid the effort by amplifying the union’s demands with social media posts and donations to fundraisers for SAG-AFTRA members. Boycotting projects made by the AMPTP is not the priority, he added.

“We’re not at this time calling for a boycott of anybody. Our focus is on shutting down production. … But that’s not to say that that won’t be something we do in the future,” he said.

How can entertainment workers receive financial support during the strike?

Several organizations have committed to supporting members of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA. Some of the most prominent funds are SAG-AFTRA’s Entertainment Community Fund and nonaffiliated crowdsourced fundraisers like the Union Solidarity Coalition Fund, Groceries for Writers and the Snacklist.

The fundraisers say they provide resources that include mental health support, health insurance, counseling, career resources, budgeting tips and grocery aid.

Fowlkes, T. 2023. "Actors and writers want fans to help their Hollywood strike. Here's how." The Washington Post, July 17. <washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/07/17/actors-strike-what-can-fans-do/>

#wga strike #writer's strike #sag aftra #sag strike #sag aftra strike #the more you know 🌠

[annabelle--cane]

last day of an art history class, and everyone has to give quick (7 mins max) presentations on the research projects they've been doing for the past two months. the girl who's going last arrived early to make sure her effects were going to work and she's particularly anxious because she's presenting on a small porn statue but was raised christian enough that she can barely say "sex" out loud. she's so antsy that she's pacing around the room and dropping to the floor to do situps as people come in. she is the most nervous, but everyone else is, too, at least a little bit. a friend jokingly asks her "what's wrong with you" and she says "just a little something the doctors can't diagnose." a guy who just sat down says "I feel that, I was psychotic last semester." she says "is that something we admit?" he says "I do, idc." a different girl sitting next to him says "that's so real. my therapist and I are currently trying to figure out if it's bipolar or ptsd." I say "I usually prefer to crowdsource from my friends, diagnosis by committee, yknow?" a different classmate, unprompted, then gives me a swiss miss hot chocolate packet. by the time the other girl's presentation rolls around at the end of class there are tears actively flooding down her face out of sheer nerves but she crushes it. later in the day, I tell my roommate this story, and when I get to the "diagnosis by committee" part they tell me they think I have autism, ocd, and cptsd.

#this happened wednesday but I just wanted to immortalize it so I don't forget. the energy of this class was insane. #marina marvels at life