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just a funky lil dude drawing stuff

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S i g h hugo

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*wistful sigh*

Hugo

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i've had two dental appointments

round 1 was a root canal that hurt (weh) round 2 was a 3 hour marathon that was two crown buildups that also hurt

hate the dentist, thanks

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A lil heart day present for the wonderful Yu!!

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i rly don't know what to do with this account, because I don't get a ton of time to myself. I also don't commission a ton of MTA art anymore. anyhooters, here's the "with cats" part of my name. My work fursona, Catden.

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oh

meowdy

William

William with his clan of rockyenarolls

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Art done FOR ME by the wonderful @oddthesungod Life's been a bit buck wild on my end, so it's a treat to see these three again <3

William being carried home at 3 am by Logan.

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It's time to Nightshade

With Tumblr looking like they're going to sell out, here's a reminder to creators and artists to Nightshade your work.

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

Do not mark art as being nightshaded. It works as a poison to training sets, and in order to prevent companies from skipping over your work you have to nightshade your stuff quietly. C: It's not future proof, but as of right now it works.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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As a heads up.

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as promised, Logan :3c

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Just some Owen fanart by yours truly

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wah it is downright illegal to be this cute what the heck

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Cuddle Time

wahh more lovely art from Odd and Teal! Both are wonderful artists to work with. I'm just so somft for how they both draw William. (https://linktr.ee/oddthesungod) (https://twitter.com/teallinum)

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weehh

when you want to play Sandrock, but Summer 20th bug

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testing the waters (again) with Teal/ MrTalin (https://www.furaffinity.net/user/mrtalin) on FA to see about getting a one-off Logan daki made

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dear tumblr

logan's tits

you're welcome

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Art by @noahasai

Art by Sid/SKxviii (https://www.furaffinity.net/user/skxviii) Some more lovely commissions done for me. More Logan, of course, and a little gift to Miguel fans. :)