Stop AI from Stealing Your Style, Use Mist; The Ultimate Free Tool That Protect Artists from AI Theft
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Hey there! If you're an artist, photographer, digital creator, or designer, and you care about keeping your work yours , then this is something you need to know.
Say hello to Mist, a powerful, free tool that helps protect your images from being copied or misused by AI art tools. It's like invisible armor for your artwork. And it is OPEN-SOURCE!
Why should you care?
Because with Mist, your images become unreadable to AI systems trying to mimic or steal your style, without changing how your work looks to people.
What Mist Does (In Plain English):
- Protects your style and content : Your images are altered in a way that makes them confusing for AI tools but look perfectly normal to humans.
- Works against popular AI tools : Stops AI apps like Lora and SDEdit from copying your images accurately.
- Looks clean to the eye : Adds subtle noise that you won’t notice, but AI models can't understand.
- Fast and light : Most images take 3–5 minutes to process using just 6GB of GPU memory. Even works on CPU if needed.
- Stays strong against removal tricks : Even if someone tries to "clean" your image with denoising tools, Mist still holds up.
New In Version 2.1.0
- Enhanced protection against AI-for-Art applications like Lora and SDEdit
- Imperceptible noise.
- 3-5 minutes processing with only 6GB of GPU memory in most cases. CPU processing supported.
- Resilience against denoising methods.
How Can You Use Mist?
- If you're on Windows with an Nvidia GPU (6GB+) : Grab the free local version, no install required, just download and run.
- If you're on Mac or don’t have a compatible GPU : Use the Colab Notebook, runs in your browser with Google’s free GPU power.
- For developers or advanced users : Build it from source, full instructions available.
Bottom Line:
If you’re serious about protecting your creative work from AI misuse, Mist gives you real control, fast, easy, and free.
License
Mist is an open-source project and we sincerely welcome contributions.
It is released under the Apache-2.0 License.
Resources and Downloads
GitHub - psyker-team/mist-v2: A watermarking tool to protect human artworks from being used in synthetic artworks.
A watermarking tool to protect human artworks from being used in synthetic artworks. - psyker-team/mist-v2
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