Glaze

Adds imperceptible changes to your artwork so that models trained on it learn the wrong style. Free, local, from the University of Chicago.

Self-hosted
Active
Allowed adult content
Free

Website

At a glance

Where it runs: Self-hostedYou run it on your own machine. Nothing leaves it unless you send it.
Adult content: AllowedAdult content is permitted within the published rules.
Trains on your content: NoYour content is not used to train models.
Status: ActiveMaintained and working today.
Account needed: No
Licence: Free for non-commercial use
Cost: Free.
What it keeps: Local only.

What it takes to run

Graphics memory: No GPU needed
System memory: 8 GB, 16 GB recommended
Disk: about 5 GB
Runs on: Linux, macOS, Windows

Find what fits your machine on the tools page — pick your hardware from the first menu.

Glaze perturbs an image in ways a person barely sees but a training run does, so a model that scrapes your gallery ends up imitating a style that is not yours.

It is defensive rather than offensive, it runs on your machine, and it is research software from an academic group rather than a product. It is not permanent protection — countermeasures exist and the arms race is real — but it raises the cost.

Worth knowing before you start

Not permanent Published countermeasures exist. It raises the cost of copying a style; it does not make it impossible.
Slow without a GPU CPU processing of a large image takes a long time.

What it does

Style cloaking
Runs locally
Adjustable strength
A web version for people without the hardware

How it relates to other tools

an alternative to Nightshade — companion tool from the same group, not a replacement

Signs of life

Checked automatically. These are the only figures on this page a machine wrote, and they say when they were taken.

Last answered: Yes, 3 hours ago Its website responded when we asked.
Archived copy: Wayback Machine A snapshot, in case this one stops answering.