Could you put in a small sneak peek for Dominoes chapter 46?
Echo and Fives sit hunched over a datapad between them at the table in the center of their barracks. Echo offers a distracted wave. Fives doesn’t even look up.
“Did you two even sleep?” Droidbait asks. When he’d gone to bed, they’d been practically the same spots, frantically working on Fives’ new training regimen.
“We slept,” Echo replies.
“Did you sleep for more than thirty minutes? Those bags under your eyes could hold a whole Armored Assault Tank,” Cutup says, voice muffled from his top bunk. “I don’t know how you slept through it, ‘Bait, they’ve been muttering down there for hours. I even threw my sad excuse for a pillow at them, but Echo just confiscated it.”
Echo nods smugly down at Cutup’s ratty pillow, cushioning his seat. “ARCs don’t need sleep.”
“Don’t need sleep my—”
“Can you guys be quiet? We’re busy,” Fives snaps.
Droidbait stares at Fives incredulously. So does Echo. Cutup lifts his head from his bunk to peer groggily out. For a moment, no one moves.
“Everything alright, Fives?” Droidbait finally asks, cautious.
“Fine,” Fives grunts. “Just trying to get this done.”
Echo meets Droidbait's gaze and shakes his head with a visible sigh.
Cutup rolls his eyes. “He’s been touchy ever since we spoke with the General,” he says to Droidbait in sloppy ARC sign. “Echo says to just leave him alone.”
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Concerned Ape knows what's up
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pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc
against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"
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Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist).
As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.
(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)
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"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.
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you will probably not look like a skinny white anime girl when you transition you will likely look like someone's mom and you need to realize how swag this is
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i feel like a lot of the 'i hate kids' crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid's limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they've ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they've ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody's told them yet that they can't run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.
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