Moths never ending art-posting Hiatus. Probably

Moth/Cryptid || They/Them || Art blog of moth-in-the-moon || DO NOT REPOST MY THINGS || Big into pokemon, rarely posts because of anxiety

[cryptidanaphafsi]

D E N I M G H E T S I S

D E N I M G H E T S I S

[girlwarlock]

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

Someone at tumblr/automattic asked whether requests to opt out of "AI" data sharing would be honored retroactively (which seems important, seeing as tumblr has apparently compiled the user data they're going to send *before* giving any kind of opt-out option) and Automattic's head of "AI" Andrew Spittle responded:

We will notify existing partners on a regular basis about anyone who's opted out since the last time we provided a list. I want this to be an ongoing process where we regularly advocate for past content to be excluded based on current preferences. We will ask that content be deleted and removed from any future training runs. I believe partners will honor this based on our conversations with them to this point. I don't think they gain much overall by retaining it.

And I do not trust midjourney or openai in the slightest--their business models, by their own admission, depend on scraping art they don't have permission to use--so I do not believe that they will honor any requests to remove data already received when requests are made to remove it. So yeah. take that as you will.

Edit

about 20 minutes after I posted this, @staff put out this:

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. AI companies are acquiring content across the interne

They do not acknowledge that they are definitely actually in the process of selling your data to third parties, but they have a setting which (they claim) will prevent them from sharing information with third parties, including "AI" training businesses.

I've turned it on, but tumblr has burned so much trust that I really don't have faith that tumblr will actually change the package of information that will be provided to these third parties based on the setting: tumblr/automattic must know that "AI" art theft is tremendously unpopular with a huge portion of tumblr, and that having this setting (even with a "you must know about it to use it" opt out setting) will result in a bunch of users setting theirs to "off" which will diminish the value of the sale.

I don't think tumblr will honor this setting.

[mojang-officialer]

it's official!

i will most likely be leaving this site for good, most likely going to mastodon. if you have any sort of moral backbone, you should too

[staff]

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.

To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 

For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

[jv]

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

[jv]

And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.

Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.

[jv]

Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.

[densewentz]

This is an ai “artwork” hate blog now

[densewentz]

like look you have this soulless thing that has anonymously and indiscriminately cannibalized years of hard-earned learning and discipline and struggle and creativity.

and you type in a little thing and it just. spits out some mashed up amalgam of other peoples inspiration, other peoples skills and dedication and livelihoods. and you sit there and smile and tag it “my art” like its not a horrible spit in the face of every artist who made that shitty little program possible. and now you think you have no NEED to pay an artist, you can just make it yourself. as if you’ve made anything??? fuck you and fuck ai “art”

[kinuyo-mizumi-1y]

Overwhelmed (Part 2)

(Featuring: @buraibanzai's Burai, and @cryptidanaphafsi's Kiku!) She stared at the man before her, her teeth gritted. 

A high-pitched shriek tore through the air. Had she done that? She wasted no time thinking, she just leaped. Her nails grew sharper as she crashed into Kazuki. 

A burning rage was all she could feel as she clawed at him. He tried to grab her arms, but her blows were too unpredictable. He growled in frustration and pain. Kazuki shoved her off, but she grabbed onto him. 

She couldn’t- No. She wouldn’t let him escape. Not without him paying off all he’d done. All the pain he made her suffer through. 

He screamed at her, but all she could hear was a ringing in her ears. Boni stabbed her nails into his arm, making him shout. 

This wasn’t her. Her normal self would never do this. Her emotions were taking over. She couldn’t think straight anymore. Why should she care about him? He wasn’t anything to her. He isn’t anything to her. 

Another shriek escaped her and she stabbed her nails into his arm again. Another pained shout from him. The anger was overwhelming. It was too strong.

There was a bitter taste in her mouth. 

“YOU LITTLE- GET OFF ME!!” Kazuki’s shouting became clearer. She breathed heavily, but the anger still lingered. 

She spat out poison. 

Kazuki’s eyes widened.

“Boni, how did you-” 

He hissed. The poison was seeping into his wounds. 

Her hands trembled as they moved to his neck. He looked at her and laughed.

“You wouldn’t dare.”

She placed them on his neck firmly.

“Mom may have been forgiving, but I’m not.”

She began choking him.

He struggled to breathe. 

A small part of her wanted to let go.

The rest of her didn’t.

Her grip grew stronger as he continued choking. He reached up to grab her arms, his nails digging into her skin. She didn’t let go. No matter how much his grip hurt, no matter how panicked he looked, she wasn’t willing to let him go. 

She had to kill him. 

He kept coughing and gasping. He slowly stood, while she still tried to keep her grip on him. He shoved her forward, pushing her against the edge of the balcony. 

Her grip loosened as she felt the warm night air hitting her back. He continued pressing her against the edge. His lips were curled into a smile. She fought back, pushing him away. He stepped back. She stepped forward.

He suddenly lunged forward and shoved her off the edge.

A cry escaped her as he looked over the edge. 

She landed in a bush. She felt small pangs of pain. The bush’s branches had scratched her all over. She groaned and struggled to get up.

—---

Kazuki turned and was abruptly jabbed at. He held his stomach and looked up. “What th-” He suddenly choked as the girl hit his throat. 

Kiku glared at him, her hands positioned to fight. 

He stood, holding his neck. “Great. Another one of her friends, I assume?”

She didn’t speak. He growled, raising his claws. “I guess you don’t feel like talking, then.” She backed up as he walked forward. She landed a kick to his side. 

He grunted as she went for another kick. He successfully blocked it, placing his arm in the way. She quickly grabbed his arm and pulled it forcefully. There was a small snap and he shouted. She kicked his side again. He was unable to block it. 

She would continue where Boni left off. She had to make sure he was punished for what he’d done. 

Kiku continued her attacks, Kazuki struggling to block them. She jabbed at him some more before he was tackled from behind. Boni growled, wrapping her arms around his neck. She suddenly anchored her foot against the railing. 

She pushed against it, throwing both of them over the edge. Kiku’s eyes widened as she ran to the railing, looking over at them. They had both landed in the bush. Boni quickly climbed out of the bush, giving her a thumbs up. “I’m fine, Kiku-chan!” 

Kiku nodded. Kazuki groaned, crawling out of the bush behind Boni. She whipped around and landed a kick to his head. He went limp and Boni stared at him for a few seconds. She turned back to look at Kiku before running back inside the building. 

[tzawa-1y]

hello bnha oc comeback

over the past year now, we've all goofed around and drawn eachothers characters a lot. And in tandem, a lot, a Lot, of redesigns have been pushed around. 11 out of 42 characters have been redesigned at some point, at least as far as ones I know of (and have officially counted.)

but as all these redesigns get. designed. the current seating chart has grown. a little outdated! so with a lot of support, I as well as Akihiko's mod Captainbaeremy, and new thalasin plus have been working on a new seating chart with all the new designs and height adjustments!

im still not quite feral enough to tag everyone, srry xoxo (also I'm too scared to tag some of you idk you AHFAHDGEJEG)

this has been a big project that's taken a lot of "oh yeah I said I'd do that didn't I" over the months, but I'm happy with how it came out!

Happy anniversary BNHA oc comeback!

Thank you again @captainbaeremy for helping with 1-x's colors! As well as @dantelionwishes for hosting, and also @nicosbrainrot for indulging me while I wasn't sure if this would even go anywhere 💕

[cryptidanaphafsi]

now that another zombie au has shown up in the tag (thank you middy) and I am here to once again re-itterate that:

Kiku would survive the zombie apokalypse, simply because she hates the genre and it’s depressing nature so much. You’re not getting her with your grimdark realities! 

[korissideblog]

top ten goth n punk bestys <3 (except they hate eachother <3)

Keep reading

[cryptidanaphafsi]

love the dynamic of these two going from Kiku despising Aito for how he uses his quirk to them being a menace to the rest of the school

Fashion truely brings people together

[cryptidanaphafsi]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIKU 💜

goth girl's one year older

I'm telling you, she's inviting the whole class to a birthday dinner at some fancy restaurant (plus her friends and kabi, but kabi wouldve been there anyway, it's their birthday too)

[cryptidanaphafsi]

Havent posted anything in a while, but it’s Kikus birthday today! (well, technically not, since theres no 29th this year, but the 28th will do)

[cryptidanaphafsi]

I am once more saying that I would post all my rvvby art, if I wasn't so utterly terrified of both people stealing my art and the Fandom attacking me like a wild dog for my opinions

[korissideblog]

rip catboy 😔 we knew you well

konekomaru belongs to the lovely @you-may-call-me-meme

kiku belongs to the spectaular @cryptidanaphafsi (pose + general inspo also comes from them, so thank you king <3)

[cryptidanaphafsi]

I’m still really happy that my silly little dream made this happen 

Konekomaru getting to cuddle with his two purple besties Who do not like eachother

[cryptidanaphafsi]

(Re-Posting this so it shows up in the tags/see if it shows up in the tags or doesnt again)

So remember the other DTIYS I did and how I said I spend most of my time on the small details on the shirt because, despite my inability to draw small details, I have an obsession with designs like that? Yeah I saw the gold details on Aitos little suit and it was all over from there.

As you can see too, I refrained from doing a whole body and just did a half, because, oh boy, I need to get better at doing whole body scenes that aren't character floating on a black bg

I also referenced a flower in this,,, alot,, which, yeah as noted at before, I saw the original pattern and kinda did my own thing with it, so I hope that doesn’t interfere with the validity of this entry

@korissideblog​

[cryptidanaphafsi]

just a test to see whether the last post didnt show up in tags cause of having been posted from my drafts/me being shadow banned or smth or if it’s cause the tag is just taking more than an hour to update

EDIT: I tried to repost it, but it’s not showing up again so HERE is the most recent thing I drew, it’s my entry for @korissideblog DTIYS

Edit Edit: It just took a whole ass day apperantly???

[cryptidanaphafsi]

Just a middle school kiku for the road. She didn't have a good time.

No one in that school had a good time.

Middle school is just not a good time period.

[cryptidanaphafsi]

I HEARD U WERE DOING OUTFITS

BLS DRAW NAGA OUTFIT i've been having the worst fucking month and it would be rlly cool but also u dont gotta except u do cuz i'm begging here ANYWAY

Its not the strabby dress but its a strabby dress

This might be a simpler look, but sometimes a pretty dress and some jewelry are enough to make a look.