Bruh, the idea that tornado cash and SD are somehow equivalent is laughable. The point is that the open source stack means that there's no point where you can f

Bruh, the idea that tornado cash and SD are somehow equivalent is laughable. The point is that the open source stack means that there's no point where you can force any of these fingerprinting things in. It's all already out in the open. It's just like HDCP, if I can see the video on my computer I can pirate it, the same goes for glaze and related approaches, fundamentally you are not going to be able to prevent someone from training on an image if a human can correctly interpret the image as the artist intended. Sure you may cause some extra steps, but those steps will quickly be automated away. The vast majority of the "theft" from artists in the form of LoRAs and finetunes is done by individuals and trivially propagated all over the internet. I can train a LoRA on a particular artist in about 6 hours using my old ass computer and a base model that's almost 2 years old plus 20 images scraped from wherever and achieve great results. Most of what gives the model the generic capability to create images doesn't need to be retrained, finetuning on styles is very cost effective. Though many of the advances in the capability of SD have nothing to do with training the model at all but rather advances in instrumentation and conditioning. Art is like 90% building on generic work that others have done before you and like 10% your own contribution if that. Everything is a remix. That is the the core truth that allows style transfer approaches to work even if the specific style is not represented in the training data, in most cases there's a blend of conditioning vectors that gets you pretty close. Maybe the future of art is "making art that's hard for the computer to recreate" which would be dope, but the stuff it's already good at? That's over and done with, that cat is not going back in the bag. And to be clear, the set of stuff it's good at is larger than the set of things that are in the training data because of advanced conditioning techniques like CoAdapters/IPAdapter/ControlNet/modified CLIP conditioning etc. And yes, millions of people, SD 1.5 had 4.5mil downloads in the last month alone.