Introducing: Cara Glaze
Hi everyone, we are excited to announce the launch of Cara Glaze beta—the long-awaited collaboration between Cara and The Glaze Project!
Glaze is a tool designed to protect artists from style mimicry by generative AI models, and we are honored to partner with the Glaze team to bring this tool to more users in the artist community.
Cara Glaze is now available on all Cara Portfolio accounts. Community accounts will receive access in waves in the coming days so long as we do not experience abuse or usage issues. To check your account status, or sign up for early access, visit the Cara Glaze dashboard:
What is Glaze?
Glaze is a program designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry in the training of generative AI models.
Below is an example of how Glaze affects AI models that try to replicate an artist’s art style.
The sample original art features the work of John Tenniel for Alice in Wonderland (1865, public domain). The LoRA models were trained on sets of 15 images, one original set without Glaze, and one set protected using Glaze.
Left: sample of original art style. Right: AI-generated outputs
In the output generated by the two models:
Trained on images with no Glaze: the artist’s hatching style is closely replicated.
Trained on images with Glaze: the style looks much more visibly disrupted.
Information republished with permission from the Glaze Works post on Reddit by WonderfulWanderer777.
A few more examples below:
Result from model trained on original images
Result from model trained on Glazed images
Given the clear result of using Glaze, we recommend everyone to Glaze their work before posting online, and to make that process easier, we have collaborated with The Glaze Project to integrate Glaze into Cara.
To learn more about Glaze, visit the official Glaze website.
What is Cara Glaze?
Cara Glaze is an integration of the Glaze tool on the Cara.app platform. Users will be able to access all features available on Web Glaze, with the added benefit of users being able to:
Create new posts that apply Glaze automatically
Upload multiple images, and download the Glazed versions as needed—all in one place
How Cara Glaze Works
On the Cara Glaze dashboard, you can:
Create a new post and Glaze all images within the post, or
Upload multiple unrelated individual images to be Glazed
You can Glaze an entire post with the “New Post” option, or upload various unrelated images using “Choose File”
At this time, it’s not possible to edit or remove Glazed images from a post after creating it. So if you want granular control over the quality and result of each Glazed image, we recommend uploading individual images instead of using the New Post option.
Glazing via +New Post
When choosing the +New Post option, a standard New Post pop up will be displayed for you to enter your post information. You can attach images as usual. After clicking “Next”, images from the post will be loaded into the dashboard, where you can choose your Glaze intensity.
Write your draft as usual. Clicking “Next” will load load the images into the Glaze dashboard
Choose the intensity you want to Glaze each image at. This cannot be changed after you click Glaze on your post.
Glaze Output
After clicking “Glaze”, images will move to the Output section and be queued. Once Glazing is complete, you will receive both an email and in-app notification.
Please be reminded that at this time, Glazed posts are published automatically.
To have more control over your Glazed images or intensity level, we recommend using the “Choose File” option to batch upload your images and review them individually.
Notes & FAQ
Cara Glaze Dashboard
For questions about Cara Glaze, check the Cara FAQ
For issues while using Cara Glaze dashboard, submit bug reports using our Discord or email
Cara Glaze is only available on desktop and mobile browsers at the moment. It will be added to our mobile app at a later date after initial testing stabilizes.
Glaze Image Quality and Output
For questions and issues with Glaze output or image quality:
Check the official Glaze website for their Guide and Q&A and;
Contact the Glaze team directly using the #glaze channel on our Discord or via their website
As a reminder, the original Glaze program is free to use. You can download the desktop app, or use the original Web Glaze
To access Cara Glaze, visit the link below:
Have questions or feedback? Reach us at support@cara.app or join our Discord community to submit suggestions. Thank you!
— The Cara Team
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