The first authentic camera app verifying & protecting human-generated content. Universal IP protection.
On-chain with
@aptos
|
@C2PA_org
, &
@ContentAuth
We are super excited to announce the Overlai App is Live on the App Store!
Creators now have a choice to control how their media is being used after posting it online.
Overlai’s first mission is to protect photos from being scraped and being used to train generative AI without
🤝 Blockchain x AI 🤝
Overlai is building essential decentralized tools on
@Aptos
for creators to universally opt-in or opt-out of AI training.
From our mobile app & Adobe plug-in to a brand new responsibly sourced, dataset marketplace, the next phase of the creator economy is
📷🔒Welcome to Overlai🔒📷
Overlai is an AI protection app for artists, built on
@SkaleNetwork
!
👥 Co-founded by
@PaulNicklen
&
@cmittermeier
🤝 Member of
@ContentAuth
🗓️ iOS/Android in December
Check out our commercial & sign-up for early access:
When we say 'Aptos for the culture', this is it. Our latest partnership with
@overlai_app
delivers on that promise – to build a better future for artists onchain, to protect their integrity as the storytellers, historians, and cultural leaders in our communities.
Check out the
Join us this Friday 8am PST on Live Spaces for a chat with
@Aptos
and
@AveryChing
and our CEO, co-founder
@lukedneumann
and CMO, co-founder
@Chase_Teron
about Blockchain and AI in the creator economy.
Set a reminder 👉🏼
Round 2 Beta is Ready! We’re onto our next few hundred testers.
iPhone users can apply below. We will contact you within 48 hours to determine if you’re a good fit for our Beta.
Thanks!
#Ainews
@C2PA_org
#CreatorEconomy
#Blockchain
#Aptos
It’s official! Overlai will be attending the Aptos Experience in Seoul, South Korea and our co-founder & CMO
@Chase_Teron
will be on the Art and Tech panel.
Who’s going?!
Come say hi to our CTO cofounder, Alex Dolgov and Chase, CMO 👋🏼
Artists 🤝 AI 🤝 Aptos
@Chase_Teron
, Co-Founder & CMO
@overlai_app
, joins The Aptos Experience to unlock the intersection of art and technology on Aptos. Creators, these are essential decentralized tools you need to know.
#ExperienceAptos
—Don’t miss it!
We are granting Beta access beyond our ambassadors for our product
#1
decentralized universal AI opt out app.
Thanks for all of the interest for those who submitted our survey to join!
#protectedbyoverlai
#overlai
@C2PA_org
@balajis
This may be the part of the future from
@overlai_app
; an image from a human (me) uploaded and verified onchain with attestations, verified by decentralized validator networks and stored via IPFS/Filecoin etc
Thank you for the spotlight
@Aptos
!
We are proud to be powered by Aptos on their L1 chain.
Our goal is to become the universal AI opt-out and opt-in solution for all creators uploading media online. Achieving this requires the scalability, reliability, and security of Aptos,
📢 Ecosystem Spotlight:
@overlai_app
This week, the spotlight falls on Overlai — an AI digital asset protection app and Adobe Plugin that protects photos and artworks from being added without permission to AI datasets.
Let's explore 🧵
AI generated images are beginning to wreck havoc.
The time is NOW to ensure imagery we see is human generated.
It must be on an immutable, globally visible ledger and validated by a non corporate owned network.
@overlai_app
on
@Aptos
is the answer.
@C2PA_org
⛓️ Blockchain ⛓️
Our decentralized AI data solution has been built from the ground up on the
@Aptos
ecosystem network.
The domain specific knowledge of
@AptosLabs
founders
@AveryChing
and
@moshaikhs
combined with their industry leading tech stack gives Overlai the most robust
1/
@overlai_app
and Aptos are at the forefront of culture and technology. The collab between Aptos Foundation,
@AptosLabs
, and Overlai brings together industry-leading experts on a mission to empower creators in the AI and Web3 era.
👀 What’s up next? Hear it straight from the
We are extremely excited to announce we are built on
@Aptos
layer one blockchain. This ensures security, scalability and reliability for the future of safeguarding images uploaded online.
True ownership and peace of mind for artists and creatives around the world. That’s how
@overlai_app
has unlocked the Aptos advantage 🌐📸
The new Overlai mobile app & Adobe Plugin, powered by Aptos in partnership with
@AptosLabs
, will empower photographers to bring their works
TODAY @ 3pm UTC: Join a fireside chat with the gigabrains at
@overlai_app
@AptosLabs
and Aptos Foundation.
Learn how to protect ownership and integrity of digital media with blockchain tech and AI, plus alpha on the future of culture on Aptos 👀
TUNE IN:
At Overlai, our mission is to protect creator’s IP and copyright throughout the media’s journey after its been uploaded online utilizing blockchain.
Not only do we protect the media from being used as training data, but we establish provenance and authenticity of your media to
AI x web3 value is being built today with the world’s best creators, builders, tech experts, and researchers.
Our latest example,
@AptosLabs
x
@Overlai
, combines AI and blockchain-powered tech stacks to solve the challenges of visual IP protection, combat deep fakes, and
🌐 Big news in digital authenticity!
Meta has joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) as a steering committee member, teaming up with industry giants like
@Adobe
and
@Google
and General Member
@overlai_app
to advance transparency in online content.
Calling all creators! Learn how
@overlai_app
is set to revolutionize the creator economy with blockchain and AI—powered by Aptos 🌐
Protecting artist authenticity is crucial in the age of AI. Fast track your creative edge with Overlai.
SET A REMINDER 👉
Web3 x AI merged properly have the potential to transform how we interact in digital environments on a global scale. Getting the testing, upgrading & infra right is key. Examples of successful pairings are already being tested, deployed and/or active on
@Aptos
(shoutout: MSFT x
@MKBHD
@thiteanish
@MKBHD
bottle this feeling please.
This is what most creators feel like right now because this situation is a microcosm of what big AI has done to the creator economy.
🔒 Universal Provenance 🔒
As a General Member of the
@C2PA_org
, Overlai is establishing internet wide provenance.
Utilizing cutting edge steganography, immutable metadata, and the emerging provenance standard, creators are now able to decide how their data is used in AI, if
We’re rolling out our FAQs, answering all things
@overlai_app
ecosystem for media authenticity, IP protection and licensing.
Here’s an intro of our first app and product available on iOS and built on
@Aptos
🚨BREAKING: Sony publishes a statement confirming that using its content, including publicly available creative works, to train AI is prohibited.
"innovation must ensure that songwriters’ and recording artists’ rights, including copyrights, are respected"
➡️Read the full
Content transparency continues to lead the way in countering
#AI
manipulation. In the latest edition of our newsletter, we feature insights from
@sherifhanna
and
@Chase_Teron
as they highlight the critical role of authenticity in digital content.
New: a leaked document obtained by 404 Media shows that billion dollar AI video generator 'Runway' had a company-wide effort to rip off YouTube videos without permission, as well as pirated films. We've posted the full spreadsheet of training data
Apple has sourced data for their AI from several companies
One of them scraped tons of data/transcripts from YouTube videos, including mine
Apple technically avoids "fault" here because they're not the ones scraping
But this is going to be an evolving problem for a long time
@BobbyAllyn
This is exactly what needs to happen to make OpenAI pay. They have ignored copyright law altogether. Sick of hearing all of the optimistic hype around AI.
At Overlai, we are creators protecting creators. We understand what it takes to master an artistic craft.
Creators, dedicate the time, the effort, the money in order to develop their own personal style and to find their voice.
All of these inputs, produce the valuable human
Our community is unlike any other…
The amount of emails, DMs, comments we get saying “thank you for what you’re doing.”
Or “thank you for taking on and solving this massive problem for us.”
Or even in our Beta telegram group, with consistent, impactful and proactive
This is the very problem we have solved.
Overlai is the human forward movement.
Your data is not AI training data unless you want to opt-in then get paid and attributed.
At
@AptosLabs
, we’re true believers in the power of Art to bring communities together and convey stories to whoever lays eyes on it.
That’s why our new partnership with
@overlai_app
to bring the world’s best AI-powered visual asset IP protection platform to
@Aptos
is so rad.
Today we announced an update to our General Terms of Use for Creative Cloud and Document Cloud customers that makes the language easier to understand, including how we handle your content. Learn more on our website.
The White Out Social Media Strike begins tomorrow on all socials.
A creator protest against big tech for unauthorized scraping of photos, videos and audio lead by
@PaulNicklen
and
@cmittermeier
Calling all creators. Photographers, Artists, Musicians, Actors, Podcasters, and
“Partnering with Reddit to bring ‘its content’ to ChatGPT.
Thank you for the circumventing strategy announcement!
See how
@overlai_app
already solved the universal opt out and opt in for fairly trained data. Our tech exists for both the creator and the end user.
#ai
#openai
Let’s welcome
@daniel_kordan
to our Ambassador team!
Daniel is a fine art landscape and travel photographer with more than 2.5M followers. He is a pioneer in how he creates his imagery and he has influenced millions of people to explore the world.
Thanks for sharing our vision
It also finally answers the question "did Apple train their text models on an unlicensed scrape of the web?"
Unsurprisingly, they did.
Full PDF paper here:
Content theft isn’t always obvious.
While most creators have had their work reused / repurposed without permission, the biggest threat is the silent killer: AI data scraping.
Original content is more valuable than ever and creators need to have the choice to protect their IP.
Do you want your images and videos used to generate AI, to make big tech money without your consent?
If not, Overlai is here to help.
We are the first & only third party app & plugin with the tech for a universal, AI training opt out capability built on the blockchain. In Beta.
We think it’s time to introduce a few of our ambassadors who are joining our mission.
…It’s the original content creator’s data & ultimately their choice of whether they opt out or opt in to AI model training.
We’re not anti-AI, we are creator forward.
@C2PA_org
#overlai
If a new gallery opened that you had reason to believe stole the artworks it displayed, you wouldn’t write about it without mentioning this.
Journalists, if you’re writing about a generative AI product and the signs point to it being trained on copyrighted work without
Many such cases. Speaking at the FMX conference gave me the opportunity to chat with VFX studios, both big and small. Literally everyone is using generative AI, yet no one is willing to talk about it publicly.
During my AI panel, an industry figure asked a super thoughtful
Welcome to the future of AI.
Collectively, the creator economy holds the keys to the largest collection of data available to these companies.
Overlai gives creators the ability to choose if, where, and when they participate in this new economy.
Sign up:
Welcome to our Ambassador team
@chrisburkard
!
Chris is a legendary adventure, nature and travel photographer with more than 4M followers and he shares our vision for protecting creator’s original content from AI model training.
#chrisburkard
#overlai
#C2PA
#ainews
#ai
Dear creators, your IP has been stolen once again. This time to train Meta’s text to image model Emu.
We’re all for AI, given that creators decide to opt in… but this blatant disregard of copyright from big tech is atrocious.
Overlai is coming in hot.
@C2PA_org
#EthicalAI
#AI
Welcome to our Ambassador team
@cmittermeier
!
Cristina is a global leader, photographer, and speaker in the ocean conservation space. She boasts a following of more than 2M and she’s a proud co-founder of
@Sea_Legacy
and of
@overlai_app
Mitty is a huge asset to our team.
#ai
AI companies don't hide their training data because it's a competitive edge. They do it because they know they'll get sued if they reveal it.
If you want evidence of this, look at open source AI companies. They claim to want to speed up AI research and improve AI safety by
Now that Meta has a new LLM model, I’m compelled to publicly discuss my personal experience attempting twice to opt out of their AI training using their third party opt out form. Here are some of the emails from September 2023 through March 2024. It took 6 montha to be rejected
It's my theory that the age of AI and the ascendence of blockchain technology are about to collide and reinforce each other 💥
Why?
One is creating the indisputable need for the other.
Right now, AI is creating a world that will make images infinitely available. We will see a
Blurred lines for media authencity. The only way forward is through verifiable media provenance on chain.
If digital media is uploaded online but not on chain we will have to assume it’s synthetic.
@bilawalsidhu
We are hoping to be that voice for ethically trained models. Give the creators the choice for a universal opt out or opt in but be paid and attributed.
The reason why Generative AI outputs are garbage isn't just because the people using them lack talent or the fundamental skills; it's because the models themselves were trained on data stolen from real artists, using their work without permission.
AI is its own medium
You can do things with it that aren’t possible to do in other mediums
You are 100% allowed to embrace it as a standalone medium, pushing its boundaries & exploring what only can be made with AI
You are 100% allowed to use it in combination with other
To my knowledge every artist, artist advocates & orgs of major impacted creative industries have been rejected.
Hope the room isnt just vested GenAi interests mascarading as creatives telling
@POTUS
@WhiteHouse
its ok to violate the rights and livelihoods of creatives via GenAi.