Kitties and Olives. @kittiesandolives - Tumblr Blog

Testing...

This is a test.

#news

Pardon the dust.

I am slowly setting up this site, stay tuned!

View On WordPress

#news

sharkface

They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

writterings

here's some instructions for anyone who doesn't know how to opt out:

login in on desktop, it's not available on mobile yet

click "Account"

click on your blog

go to "Blog Settings"

go to "Visibility"

Scroll down to the bottom option

turn the toggle ON, not off

you will have to do this individually for each sideblog you have too, no way to do it for each account in one go

Kuro Shouri update! Making rescue plans!

Hisaki: After we rescue Yasha, I carry her like a princess out of the castle! Kakon & Haru: Huh? Hisaki: I mean… what? I said nothing! 😳

#my art #kuro shouri #comics #webcomics #webtoon #comic update #webcomic update

darkhalo4321

Comic update!

A boy with no memory from his childhood accidentally falls into a well and finds out he has magical powers. As his power awakens, his memori

Webcomic update! Read it please!

#friend comics

Yeah, so. I dunno if that rumor about Tumblr letting AI eat the site is true, but I ain't taking any chances. So I deleted all of my unglazed art off here. And it was a JOURNEY.

Some of that art was fanart I've created for other webcomic artists or friends, and if you were relying on Tumblr for that image, just DM me and I'll give you the file.

#blog #I'm not leaving or anything...yet #if that rumor turns out to be true though #I'm gone!

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.

#ah heck #time to move the old art off here

weepingwitch

another thought about "gen z and gen alpha don't know how to use computers, just phone apps" is that this is intentionally the direction tech companies have pushed things in, they don't want users to understand anything about the underlying system, they want you to just buy a subscription to a thing and if it doesn't do what you need it to, you just upgrade to the more expensive one. users who look at configuration files are their worst nightmare

#so true #and it's frustrating as someone who tried to go into tech support #'cause they don't teach you how the program works or anything #just expect you to use the apps slightly better than the average user