Has Alvin been trained?

 

Lila is a bit sceptical about trying to train Alvin, But has an AI been secretly scraping his web footprints?

Find out if your work has been scraped with the link below

https://haveibeentrained.com/

Lila looks for ways to avoid scraping for AI Traininbg?

A promising development is the creation of tools that embed changes in image files. These alterations are invisible to humans but can disrupt AI training, potentially "poisoning" the dataset. Glaze and Nightshade are two such tools,

Alvin comes out of social media retirement

 

Alvin has kindly come out of the shadows on the net to help Norm, look into Cara as an alternative to Instagram and perhaps a way to stop the aggressive scrapping of data and images for Neural Network training. He is starting by asking "Is the creative commons sub-licence NO [no derivative] enough to stop AIs scrapping him?" 

Fall Guy

 because you're an illustration and the drawing challenge was fall,
 and it is called Autumn here,
and at the other end of the year anyway.

Cartoon created with Corel Draw

For @Sketchbookskool A Drawing a Day  on Instagram :: Day 22 Lucky

A Drawing A Day - Pocket

 

Cartoon, when deep pockets are not enough to save Alvin from being poor (but still happy) created with Corel Draw

For @Sketchbookskool A Drawing a Day :: Day 7 Pocket 

A Drawng a Day

 Alvin doesn't mind helping out on Norm's Drawing a Day project

Cartoon, Alvin just loves his new Undies, created with Corel Draw

For @Sketchbookskool A Drawing a Day :: Day 3 Underwear

Time to Redecorate

 Lila & Alvin decide to redecorate using AI (inspirations supplied by #stablediffusion)

Pity its just a dream!

Merry Christmas

 

"Don't eat that, I'm painting it!"

Inktober - Scrape

 

Alvin scraping the bottom of the barrel,

Inktober - Salty

 

Alvin enjoying his Anchovie Pizza (alone)

Now where did I put those glasses?

 

For Inktober 2020 

Day 12 

Topic  Forget

The Zoom Suit

 

For Inktober 2021 

Topic :Suit

On Vacination

 

Yet Another level 4 Lockdown

 

Don't mention the name

 

Norm: Ssssh! be careful using that word.

Norm: I have a variety of reasons, the two controversies involving Jake Parker both of which seem to involve over zealous lawyers. Plus the internet is becoming a very unreliable and darker place. So I need a social media break.

Just mask up

"Lila prides herself on the tiniest detail
.....like wearing a mask when it counts."

... thanks Nikki Wellington  on facebook for this caption

Loom as a way to share creating the cartoons here

Towards Memories of Lockdown

On Dodgy Zoom Links

BEWARE That there are numerous hacking and phishing scammers out there looking to exploit the uncertainty and fear around the warning that from May 30th versions of the zoom app lower than version 5 will not be admitted to zoom meetings. This is true. However zoom itself will give you the opportunity to easily upgrade, whereas the fake links and sites might ask you for your name in full, email address, password, phone number and/or credit card details. So its important you don't give up this information The bad guys objective is identity theft and then to extract money from you or exploit your friends.You should always be suspicious if ask to supply this type of information.

And now for some cool jazz

Alvin has learnt to avoid zoom fatigue and anxiety by muting himself  and tuning into some good contemporary jazz during long zoom meetings, with occasional head nodding for effect.