It depends on what exactly you want to achieve. If you want money, then upload it to Adobe, Shutterstock, and such. That’s the best offer you can expect. No one will offer you big bucks for an AI license just because you have protected your drawings.
If you want to have your own site, then you could rely on Cloudflare for handling the technical and legal side of preventing scraping/AI use.
But I guess the main worry for any artist is other artists who use AI. That’s where Glaze and Nightshade come in. It’s already been suggested but you should know how much you can expect.
These tools target the original Stable Diffusion 1.5. IIRC they also work on SD 2.0 because they reused some components. I am not sure what other versions, if any, could be affected. Certainly not the newer ones.
It goes without saying that the major companies were never affected, could not be affected. Since no one mentions it, I guess it’s self-evident but I want to repeat it for the uninitiated.
I think these early models are still used partly because they have lower hardware demands and partly because they are less professionally censored (ie more suitable for porn).
Anyway, the effectiveness against hobbyists, your competitors, or other small scale AI users, is also limited. They may not use a susceptible model, especially if they make SFW images. If their model is susceptible, then these tools may waste a few hours of their time and maybe a bit of money. But it won’t get rid of the competition or even significantly harm them.
It depends on what exactly you want to achieve. If you want money, then upload it to Adobe, Shutterstock, and such. That’s the best offer you can expect. No one will offer you big bucks for an AI license just because you have protected your drawings.
If you want to have your own site, then you could rely on Cloudflare for handling the technical and legal side of preventing scraping/AI use.
But I guess the main worry for any artist is other artists who use AI. That’s where Glaze and Nightshade come in. It’s already been suggested but you should know how much you can expect.
These tools target the original Stable Diffusion 1.5. IIRC they also work on SD 2.0 because they reused some components. I am not sure what other versions, if any, could be affected. Certainly not the newer ones.
It goes without saying that the major companies were never affected, could not be affected. Since no one mentions it, I guess it’s self-evident but I want to repeat it for the uninitiated.
I think these early models are still used partly because they have lower hardware demands and partly because they are less professionally censored (ie more suitable for porn).
Anyway, the effectiveness against hobbyists, your competitors, or other small scale AI users, is also limited. They may not use a susceptible model, especially if they make SFW images. If their model is susceptible, then these tools may waste a few hours of their time and maybe a bit of money. But it won’t get rid of the competition or even significantly harm them.