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hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)

✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈

super-autism-death-ray

reblogging for personal use

theunsureartist

ART REFERENCE NOT FULL OF AI?! YESSS

fangirling-and-making-stuff

THANK YOU

puppetedvessel

everything is either "sweets", "cutes", or "fucked beyond comprehension"

zalianth

what is prev

sweets

cutes

fucked up beyond comprehension

Voting ended onDec 20, 2025

#sorry babe youre fucked up beyond comprehension #love you

ceruleanheaven

the lion concerns himself with everything

chilewithcarnage

whatacartouchebag

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.

If you were one of today’s lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I won’t be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply don’t have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge wild wild abandon.

metalheadsagainstfascism

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Further, some authors may never even find out the lawsuit is happening. The court's suggested notification scheme "would require class claimants to themselves notify other potential rightsholders," groups said, overlooking the fact that it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits.

If you're an author, please use this database to see if you could qualify for that sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

I have never ever ever in my life asked someone to blaze my posts.

But if you want to throw me some pennies blaze this. I want ALL OF THE AUTHORS to know that they have the opportunities to get some sweet sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Like to charge. Reblog to cast that Anthropic will have to pay out the ass.

-fae

gothiccharmschool

Oh look, my book is in there. GIVE ME MONEY.

elodieunderglass

Interestingly, I reblogged this thinking it might be interesting for my followers - but as I’m not an author I didn’t think further.

Then I did think for a second. I realised I had fallen into the classic tumblr trap of believing that Authorship Equals Fantasy Fiction Writer. It’s amazing how that gets into your own head.

I went back and found a clutch of my scientific papers on there.

Not something that’s worth me pursuing any farther - and a lot of those works are very openly open access, and so they are honestly the exact sort of content that SHOULD be used to train responsible models. But worth remembering that it’s very common on tumblr to think of all writing as, like, genre fiction, and there are other types of writing too.

cassolotl

Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models. In a press release provided to Ars, the authors confirmed that the settlement is "believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation." Covering 500,000 works that Anthropic pirated for AI training, if a court approves the settlement, each author will receive $3,000 per work that Anthropic stole. "Depending on the number of claims submitted, the final figure per work could be higher," the press release noted.

each author will receive $3,000 per work

girldraki

MONESSEN, PA—Recreational cyclist Ethan Coseglia, 38, thoroughly explained the benefits of wearing $35 bike-riding socks to his friend Kevin

emberlark

shutyourmoustache

I literally heard myself wheeze at one point reading these. 😂

shutyourmoustache

freyalise

i'm pregnant... with the next great American novel! [looks directly at you, suddenly serious] and I'm getting an abortion

ozth

what? oh sweetheart no, you're not weirding me out at all. you're weirding me in. keep talking, freak

#girlfriend

doubleca5t

Right wingers not only promoting pseudoscientific ideas around porn addiction, semen retention and other no-fap community nonsense but actively legislating against pornography being legal means that I think we can officially call it: great news everyone, jacking off is now woke! This also means posting pole and hole is woke, going horny on main is woke, and most importantly gooning on the clock is woke. boss makes a dollar I make a dime that's why I nut on company time. The Gooner Rights Agenda is the future of the radical left - Coomers of the world Unite! You have nothing to lose but your pants

squeakitties

hey i noticed you apologize profusely when you realize you made an inconsequential mistake or come to mildly incorrect conclusions based on what you know, were you harshly and disproportionately punished for the most mild of faux pas during your upbringing?

high-quality-tiktoks

The foam was not as gross looking irl😂😭

clevermanka

who tf is looking at the foam

professionalchaoticdumbass

shortlesbian

quietwingsinthesky

the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

testamentcrux

i think about this every day

funny-tik-toks

funstyle

having audio processing issues is so humiliating like yeah i heard you and yeah i was actively listening but the problem is i dont know what the fuck you sayed