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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just found out we’re located in the “pro stage” so regular attendees (non professional badges) can’t get in without a reservation. So make a reservation beforehand i guess? This is somewhat annoying and unexpected.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Powerful statement from mathematicians around the world. “We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.” The backlash to AI is only just beginning. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/a...

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A heads up for a talk this Wednesday by Ben Zhao, cohosted by IEEE and ACM Chicago chapters. There is also a zoom option. events.vtools.ieee.org/m/579580

Meeting info for ACM talk, Wed Sept 30, 6:30pm with zoom link.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve taught classes on blockchains. So I know what NFTs can offer and what they cannot. Thanks for the offer.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Change the file name after you apply nightshade and before you run glaze

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Or more accurately, G and NS run on PyTorch and PyTorch does not support AMD GPUs.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is this windows I assume? We are just not very good windows developers. Nobody in the lab uses windows. I’ll take a look.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For folks at NY comic con, reminder to join us on Oct 10, Saturday, 2:45pm-3:30pm for our panel on Creatives defense against AI, with the great @kortizart.bsky.social and Tim Friedlander from NAVA, moderated by @robsalk.bsky.social.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

10 year old grabs his classmates homework, and runs away. As he sprints away, he yells “wow someone should really stop me, I’m really misbehaving!”

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Please read our instructions on how or request access: glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/webinvite.html. We need to see art samples and you have none on your account.

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WebGlaze - How to get invites?

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sorry, that paywall is recent. There's a cached copy of the article on the Glaze webpage and I'll DM you.

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Rebelle by Escape Motions @escapemotions.com · 01/09/2026

Introducing Rebelle Featured Artist, Reg Ressing @iamregressing.bsky.social’s favourite subjects in school were mathematics and art. Today, she is a multi-award-winning artist recognised by the Society of Illustrators and National Arts Program. escapemotions.com/featured-artists/reg-ressing

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Reg @iamregressing.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

These three pieces I made this year are going on exhibit!

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Reg @iamregressing.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Belladonna, my fanart of Nightshade! Thank you @theglazeproject.bsky.social for the work you do to protect artists.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Your questions are all answered in the FAQ. No we are not going to release a linux version. I have answered that question repeatedly for years now.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Big tech paused CA’s GenAi transparency bill AB412 behind closed doors. However, over 3.8 million creative workers have come together to demand transparency! This coalition isn’t going anywhere! Its sponsors, CAA, SAG AFTRA, NAVA Voices & The Author’s Guild have next steps! Here’s what to do👇

AB-412 UPDATE
The Al Copyright Transparency Act
WE'RE NOT GOING AWAY
Artists & Creators Must Have Transparency!
The irony of a transparency bill dying in the dark is not lost on those of us in the creative community.
Big Tech is terrified of transparency. Big Tech, who has fought us every step of the way on the Al Copyright Transparency Act, has now succeeded in getting the legislature to kill AB-412 behind the closed doors of an appropriations committee.
It should be noted that AB-412 was a bill that had no fiscal appropriation whatsoever.
This will be devastating to the creative industries, their IP, and the hundreds of thousands of creative workers who bring billions of dollars to California's economy. Creative workers are struggling, and this very simple transparency bill could have helped countless people. The issue is not going away, and delaying workable solutions for such an increasing problem will only make the situation worse for everybody.
Our coalition representing more than 3.8 million individuals, brought creative workers from every corner of the creative economy together with a unified voice. Our bill passed out of the California Assembly, four committees in the State legislature, and several hundred individuals showed up at every single public hearing to say just how much a bill like AB-412 could help them. This issue is not going away. We are not going away. We are now moving to put our energy towards the next best steps.
Please take a moment to contact Assembly Member Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (916) 319-2016 and Assembly Member Ash Kalra (916) 319-2025 to thank them for their leadership in authoring and Co-Authoring this bill respectively.
Please express to them our request that they bring this bill back next session. Please tell everyone you know to contact them as well.
AB-412 simply affects too many people to simply be swept away into a corner and decided in the dark.
Sincerely, SAG•AFTRA CONCEPT ART ASSOCIATION
NAVA VOICE ACTORS AG Authors

TRANSPARENCY SHOULDN'T BE DECIDED IN THE DARK.
Big Tech wants AB 412 stopped behind closed doors. A bill affecting hundreds of thousands of California creatives deserves a public hearing.
Call Assembly Members Rebecca Bauer-Kahan at
(916)319-2016 and Ash Kalra at (916)319-2025
thanking them for their leadership in authoring this bill and requesting they bring AB 412 back next session.
AB 412 | A.I. Copyright Transparency

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You didn't send a DM here. We get a ton of emails. Depending on what you're asking for, we don't respond to every email.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you and @kafsofit.bsky.social for this information. We're new to this part of the online space, and this is definitely news we're digesting and carefully considering. I will investigate the other platforms and see if we can find a workable alternative.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hmm, ok, this is different. I was not aware. Let me read this carefully. We might reconsider given this information...

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sorry if my reply sounded pointed. Just trying to suggest that the way to fight back against bad actors is not to run away from anything they touch, but to organize against them to deplatform them.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So ... what do we do if an offensive group starts using wordpress? We switch to something else, until we're using something that no offensive group uses or wants to use? Sorry but I don't think that is a viable tactic. Organize and get substack to deplatform hate groups. That's a better solution.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm hopeful we can do more on the technology side. Meta glasses use local bluetooth connections to send video to phones for recording/processing. A reasonably powerful BLE jammer will disable the glasses in a small area. It will also disrupt headphones or watches, but might be practical.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I appreciate the note. I looked at Ghost.org. They charge a monthly rate while Substack is free. I also recognize that any platform can have bad actors spreading misinformation or hate speech. Substack can/should de-platform these groups. But right now we have to go w/ the free option.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes, it takes time to break anything, and the strength of any results ultimately depend on: a) the specific prompt that is being disrupted, and b) the # of artists who post images on each subject using nightshade. That said, it takes just a few hundred images to subvert a single topic.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

4. Some have been asking about the Cara scraping incidents. I'll let Cara folks answer those. I will say that there are security measures that can be deployed to stop/slow down these activities. But it does require engineers to deploy. Glaze is not designed to stop scraping, only the training after.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

3. ETCH will be starting a substack in the coming weeks to help answer key questions in AI related to art and creative content, things like watermarks, stopping scrapers, unlearning, attribution to specific training data, etc.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

2. There's still more misinformation circulating about Glaze and Nightshade being "bypassed." That is false. Nothing has changed recently. We periodically test against different models and new optimization techniques to improve visual quality. Will update with improvements when we have something new

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some news updates: 1. We finally found/hired someone reliable to do webglaze requests. They have now processed requests going backwards to 2024 (because DM ordering in bsky always puts newest messages on top).

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

can someone rename gas to $2/ gallon

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That is the same error. Should be fixed now that mirror.cs is restored.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That’s fixed now. The Mac download file was stored on an older server and it was not prioritized in the restore.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Uhh also in Japanese? Might be a language file name related error

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hmm looks like mirror is not mounted properly. I’ll ping the tech staff to take a closer look. Thanks for the heads up

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

No. Servers have been back for a while. Probably an issue with your network blocking access?

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

No. Either you got the file or not. Power outage would not affect that. Some external libraries are downloaded from huggingface. You need to make sure they are accessible from your network.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Dunno. You need to reach out to Rob Salkowicz. He would know.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The GPUs are busy at work. Each job takes some number of seconds. It should not take too long to clear up the queue.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

we can prevent a lot of failures... but the electricity company needing to shut down entire blocks to update their equipment is something we have no defense for :P

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As of 9pm CST (Aug 19), webglaze is back up and functional. Worker nodes are up and chipping away at the 200+ jobs waiting in the queue. Job processing times will remain high for the next couple of hours but should return to normal (light load) soon. Thanks for your patience.

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

one more update. web glaze web interface is restored.. but afaik, the worker servers that run glaze for webglaze are still slowly being restored... so you can submit jobs but they but just sit in the queue until the worker servers come online.

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