Slimy Bug Fella

Charles He/him || 20 || very small, tiny even || I’ll probably post drawings and other stuff here occasionally || mostly just reblog stuff tbh

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Built a laundry mat in terraria

[borbpy]

😢😢😢

[meridian-cities]

[toastyghostey]

CARA, CARA MIA-

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I take drawing so seriously

[gomgeomeogmeogmy]

Fallout new Vegas if it was made in 2024

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Salmon people posting I guess lol

May do a full painting… maybe

[paig-does-it]

drop some beats lil man

[catgirlhell]

its official: tumblr is selling our data to Midjourney

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.

we'd been hearing rumors about this for a bit but now its open and out there. some details from this article

it goes without saying, but if @staff goes through with this its going to be an utter shitshow and im all but certain the website will not survive it.

[evilwizard]

everyone go enable this immediately. it can be a bit hard to find because “visibility” is under blog settings instead of general settings or privacy. you have to do this individually for each separate side-blog

if you can’t find it on the app then the update probably hasn’t rolled out to you, and you’ll have to go through the web browser. what a truly wild way/time to implement this

[psykersomatic]

[ceilingcow]

Yeehawgust Day 5: Campfire Tales 

Just a completely normal cowboy doing totally average cowboy things, while definitely not following a Courier on their way to New Vegas. 

[cute-catts]

[pixelated-pomegranate]

New header :] + sketch

[cysketch]

off goes postmaster pearl~~

[woagopossum]

little drawin of her new skin bc is so cute.. postal pearlo is on the job

[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.

[salora-rainriver]

Just tested. It’s possible to swap out pictures on already-published posts. So in that case, a solution:

Nightshade your photo posts now.

Even if you don’t post your own art anymore, go back to your old stuff and watermark it.

Do it ASAP, before the deal goes through and the scraping begins.

This will not only protect your art, but has the opportunity to fuck over this deal on a pretty large scale. The more of these posts that are glazed or poisoned, the less valuable this deal becomes for tumblr and midjourney.

Share this with everyone. And i do mean everyone.

[tranzzitts-deactivated20251231]

@neuroticreno @meltypen

[rad-roche]

you know, i was ready to be cynical about the fallout mtg crossover, but consider me pleasantly surprised. a lot of thought and care went into it. yes man has my favourite card effect of the bunch

everybody just bosses him around. thrown from player to player. that's so funny