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.)
Everyone reblog! Spread the word so more and more artists learn that in addition to Glaze that coats art against ai scraping mimicry there’s also an offensive tool now, able to skew and poison data pools.
Now poisoning will need many artists to nightshade their art and it’s most important to get this ou to those the most at risk of being scraped. Reblog!
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and I’ll add a little context: this isn’t trying to figure out which is like, “more correct” to do as a tank, I’m just curious where the general vibe is - cause my sister grew up playing WoW where, in her circles, it was usually considered rude to pull wall to wall. now XIV is obviously a very different game, but coming to this mmo and seeing folks (admittedly usually DPS players) say that it’s rude not to wall to wall is just interesting to me
I do think in the end its up to the tank and the healer, especially if one or both is a sprout, but its been interesting to see just how… worked up some people really get over it
I feel like this needs an in-between option. If I tank, I ask what the party wants. If they want wall-to-wall, I do it. If not, I don’t. If I heal, I let the tank know I am comfortable with wall-to-wall. I don’t think it’s as black and white as people make it out to be. Adjust to others around you, it’s a party/multi-player based game.
Always. Ask. Permission.
Also depends on party makeup…easier to wall-to-wall if you got at least one AoE that can splatter.
Considering the dev’s have reconstructed the lower level dungeons to not be wall-to-wall pullable, it is obvious that they want the players to get used to that playstyle gradually, if at all.
As a tank I will ALWAYS check out my healer before I do big pulls. If any clever DPS get the idea to run ahead and pull before I know whether the healer is comfortable I will let them die. A lot of people think this is entitled behaviour, but honestly, most go-go DPSers I’ve encountered don’t consider a) the healer’s experience or even what type of healer it is, b) whether there’s any good aoe in the party.
If there’s no good aoe the pulls will actually be slower if we go big and we’ll drain healer of MP because they’ll have to keep the tank up for longer (meaning less DPS output from them as well). It is just an all around waste and it is rude to put that pressure on your team.
So yeah, it is not rude or rude to wall-to-wall pull, it is just rude to not consider your team before you do or do not do it. Communication is key in an MMORPG. Who would have thought.
You aren’t dead, but you’re leaving our friend group.
You aren’t dead but you’ve moved to a different state and now we text twice a year.
You aren’t dead but you blocked me.
You aren’t dead but we stopped talking, not on purpose but so long ago that I wouldn’t even know what to say to you now.
You aren’t dead but you’re a stranger to me now.
You aren’t dead but we lost touch and now I don’t even remember your username.
You aren’t dead but I ended things with you and now we never speak.
You aren’t dead but I still have to grieve you. Whether I’d change it if I could or not, you’re still a presence that I’m used to and now you won’t be there anymore.
