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.
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
It’s on mobile now:
1. Go to settings
2. Scroll down and click on visibility
3. It should be the bottom option, turn the toggle on
Go forth, protect your shit
this is as good a time as any to relink the texture i use on my art - open for anybody who'd like to use it. i slap this over my work on a simple overlay layer
the graininess and various scratches are generally troublesome to machine learning, since they rely so heavily on pattern recognition and color association.
compare the purple selection my computer manages on one color without the texture:
(the idea generally stays. you can make out most grass shapes, and many outlines)
to the same one with the texture :
(grass is highly abstracted, hard to tell when it truly ends, the pixels look less related to one another on the whole.)
either way it's there for y'all if you think you could get some use out of it.
