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 internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.
Here are the important details:
We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner.
We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.
To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.
For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc.
Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.
If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.
It's not acquiring. It's stealing content. And that is why we at Pillowfort are working hard at keeping Generative AI off of our platform. Our users spoke and it was overwhelmingly clear that Generative AI should not be welcomed at Pillowfort. We are doing everything we can with our limited funding and staff to stand up for our community. September 2023 we blocked Chat-GPT from scraping content on Pillowfort. February 2024 we have updated our policy to prohibit content created through the use of generative AI programs such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Dall-E on Pillowfort. We formed our policy in collaboration with international university researchers. We do expect as the situation continues to evolve that our current policy may need revisions in the future. It isn't perfect but it is worth everything to us (even if we fail) to protect artists, writers, and creators.