How to Use Glaze to Protect Your Work From AI Art Generators
As advancements in AI continue to intrigue and amaze the public, artists are becoming more and more concerned that their artworks will be stolen and fed to AI software algorithms in order to recreate their style.
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What Is Glaze?
Glazeis a tool that can help artists protect their work from AI art generators. The app works by applying subtle changes to the artwork—changes so minor that they’re barely noticeable to humans—that can easily confuse AI software. What these changes do is obscure the art style with the use of “cloaking” so that it can’t be replicated by AI art generators.
If you’re someone who wants to utilize AI art generators, there are variousways you can generate and use AI art ethically.
Download:Glaze forWindows and macOS(Free)
How to Use Glaze to Protect Your Art
For this guide, we are using a MacBook Pro with Intel Core processing.
Once you’ve downloaded Glaze and added the software to Applications, open the app by clicking on the icon in your Dock or searching for it in Launchpad. Immediately, Glaze will download a set of nine resources which can take several minutes; when all resources are downloaded, you may begin the process by following the steps below.
1. Select Your Images
In the top left corner, clickSelectand find the image, or images, you want to upload to Glaze (you can select several at a time). Once all the images are highlighted, clickOpen, and double-check that you’ve selected the correct number of images by looking at the empty space on the right next to Select. You should seeSelected x images.
2. Adjust the Intensity and Render Quality
After selecting your images, decide how intense you want the Glaze cloaking to appear on your image, and what quality you desire for the end result.
To change theIntensityof the cloaking (that is, how drastic a change you want to apply), drag the cursor on the bar below from left to right. The far left beingVery Low, and the far right beingVery High.
To change theRender Quality, which decides the quality of the finished image, drag the cursor on the bar below toFaster,Medium, orSlower. Faster rendering takes around 20 minutes, while slower rendering can take a whole hour. However, slower renders produce results with better quality, which means better protection for your images.
If you want to take additional preventative measures, here are some otherways it’s possible to protect your images from AI art generators.
3. Select an Output
The output is where your image will be saved after it has run through Glaze, so verify you choose a location with access.
To start, clickOutputand select a folder or location to save the image to after the process is completed. Once you’ve selected the folder, clickOpen.
Next, if you’re only using one image, you can preview it by clickingPreviewto confirm you’ve chosen the right one—you cannot do this with more than one image. Otherwise,Previewand clickRun Glazeto start the process. Glaze will begin by analyzing the images and then rendering them.
The time it takes will depend on the number of images and quality options.
How to Know if Glaze Worked
After the rendering has completed, the new images will immediately be saved in the place you chose for Output. Upon first glance, you might not see any difference at all. Don’t panic! The changes that Glaze makes are very subtle, and you will likely struggle to see any difference initially.
However, upon closer inspection, you will notice stylistic adjustments in the details that make it near impossible for AI to copy your style.
Glaze is very power-hungry. Close all other applications while using Glaze for a quicker and more efficient process.
Glaze Your Art
Glaze is a fairly new tool, so there are still some bugs that need fixing, and it isn’t completely without faults. But it is the only one of its kind, so if you’re an artist who uploads your work online, do the safe thing and Glaze your art to protect it from AI.
Can AI art be copyrighted? And what’s the deal with AI art generators and copyright infringement? Here’s what we know.
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