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i don't usually break kayfabe for things like this but the only way tumblr will ever change is if they see a proper user exodus over this AI scraping nonsense.

get your mutuals' other socials and delete your blogs.

the blog settings will not help you. all it takes is 1 'glitch' resetting it for everything you've ever posted to be fed into an AI's training set, and even if tumblr asks the AI companies to delete it, why would they?

staff does not care about you, and this site will never improve if you pretend that they do

#tumblr #ai #leave tumblr #and i'm @twinlayer on mastodon #not sure if i will continue to post minecraft or what but there it is anyways

emesse360

nintengu

temporarily breaking my indefinite hiatus to say FUCKING FINALLY

#the other changes in this snapshot are standard mojang fare #good-looking but substanceless

boimann

ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

it's funny. tumblr made their april fools' joke opt-in but the fucking AI DATA HARVESTING SCHEME IS OPT-OUT

#april fools #boop

waheelawhisperer

idgaf what cutesy shit tumblr tries to pull for April Fools, this is still the same website where the multimillionaire CEO stalked a trans woman across multiple platforms because she bruised his fragile ego, where a moderator took bribes to delete accounts, where moderation disproportionately targets black, transfem, and pro-Palestinian bloggers, where literal hardcore heterosexual pornography can be both posted without consequence and actively advertised to users while trans women posting transition timelines get hit with the banhammer, where outright hate speech goes unpunished but an obvious shitpost results in the associated account's termination, and where its leadership advertises it as the queerest site on the internet while doing all of the above. No amount of silly goofy gimmicks will change that.

Do you know any good sites we could go to? <- Looking for sites to move their rp stuff to

mastodon might be fine, but for RP specifically there might be better options. not really into that subculture myself so anyone else w/ good ideas post em in the notes

girlwarlock

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

#end of an era i guess

delatoid

Rana!!!! Timelapse

#good ol rana #havent reblogged anything of her in a good while

mikuhats

do you organize your tools like this

yes

almost (1 thing is different)

no (i organize different)

Voting ended onMar 1, 2024

winternimbus

hey um! with KOSA looking more and more closer to passing, email and call your reps to prevent it from passing! bad internet bills is a helpful site with an easy to fill out forum that does not take long to complete stop KOSA is also another good site w/ a prefilled out message you can send (with resources for those not in the U.S. too!), and much like bad internet bills, it has an easy to fill out form that does NOT take long to complete this is very important! because this will effect ALL of us, not just usamericans! this is something that has the power to irreversibly ruin the internet as a whole

nuclearblast

shes beautiful to me

baglsasha

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