leo leonidas art blog real

🐕🏳️‍⚧️ leo/clancy/clovis, xe/him, sol/sols 🪐💛 this is my new art blog! :3 my main is @sleepyjim

[sleepyjimart]

intro babey

hello!!! you can call me leo, clancy or clovis and my pronouns are xe/he/sol. im a disabled, schizophrenic queer artist from florida !

this is my art blog! ill use it to reblog art from my main blog @sleepyjim , most of my art there is fanart but ill post some of my original stuff as well as doodles here too :3 <3

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this blog is googy protected!!! no terfs no zionists no bigots.

[ID: a digital drawing featuring two cat-like little creatures holding up the intersex-inclusive progress pride flag. there is a red heart drawn between them. /end ID]

[sleepyjimart]

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drew a sweet basset i saw on pinterest ! original photo under the cut :)

[ID: a digital illustration of a basset hound sleeping peacefully, resting her head on her paw and her tail tucked against her. she has white fur with brown splotches on her face, ears, back, and rump. the background is simple, soft shades of pink-ish purple, with the artist's signature at the top right corner. /end ID]

[ID: the original photo, depicting the basset from OP's drawing sleeping on a grey sofa. /end ID]

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may turn this into a sticker sometime... :3

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i started playing animal jam last week , this is my silly guy ! :D xir name is navigator

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self portrait of sorts

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some woofs !!!

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whiteboard fox doodles :3

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more scans :D !!

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found my old crayola twistables so here are scans of a few drawings i created with them! :D

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coldest drink in town!! 🐻‍❄️

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:3

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:3

negative version under the cut!

[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.

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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.

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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.