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A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

ayeforscotland

Let’s fucking go

made-in-manetheren

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

bluegiragi

regularly scheduled reminder that I hate AI, I don't consent to any of my art being used for AI whether that's for chatbots or generative AI, I've never used ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini or Grok or whatever the fuck in my life and never will and I do think that makes me a better person than people who do. also if you're a "fan" of mine and willingly use AI, I think you're actively making the choice to hand over all brain function to companies owned by billionaires who hate you and humanity, which makes you pathetic and embarrassing.

warmfigure

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

unlettered-heathen

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

tendermiasma

Subscribestar quietly updated their TOS yesterday to ban a load of previously allowed content at the behest of payment processors. There are no safe platforms. This will keep happening and we have to fight back.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art, Substar, itch, Patreon, etc)

This is your chance to tell them directly that you don't want to be told how to spend your money:

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

✨ Guidance on submitting an effective comment per the Free Speeh Coalition via ECR News:

"YES it's a good idea to comment on this as ero creatives. the FSC is also submitting a comment. Summarized advice from the FSC (from their lobbyists) was that you should tell your story/explain why the issue is important to you, and – most importantly – clearly say what you want the Fed to do about it. In this case, eliminating "reputation risk" from the Board's supervisory programs."

Before anyone suspects this is only going to benefit republican institutions, remember that last year the OCC specifically named adult industries as a sector facing unfair debankment.

Please leave a comment as so many others have done already! Artists need you and you're going to need you too because they never stop with what you personally find distasteful. They are insatiable and you will watch your livelihoods, what you love, disappear too.

itsaaudraw

🛸 OFFICIAL COMMISSION SHEET 🛸

it’s finally done, my official comm sheet!!!! no more deviantart journal, it’s all compiled in one (well. four) sheet. i hope everything is easy to read, but if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to message me.

commissions are pretty much always open, but i operate on a queue system. as of posting this, my queue is relatively wide open, so get your itsaaudraw comm today *infomercial voice over*

willgrahamscock

KILL AI AND REBLOG AND CREATE ART IN 2026

moringmark

runcibility

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

quadriviummuse

I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.

weedy-sweetie1

A neat lil info chart I found and thought others might find useful :)

astrodidact

darkalleysunflower

pink-squirl

Terry Crews came out and admitted he had been sexually assulted by someone in the film industry, and is now being blacklisted. I have been a fan of his since Idiocracy, and will continue to support all of his work.

So when you wonder why people don’t come forward with their assults, this is why.

commandtower-solring-go-deactiv

Where are all the bitch men who ask about male sexual assault when the focus is on women but are dead silent when men are actually at the focus.

atomic-darth

It’s almost as if Men’s Rights Activists don’t really care about men’s rights. Hmmm….

🤔

rafawriter

Yep….

motherfickle

This misses the really powerful piece of the story: Terry Crews was the one who chose not to do the movie. One of the producers told him, essentially, that he could either do the movie and be drop the sexual assault charges, or continue with the trial and have “troubles”. Terry dropped out because he felt standing against abusers was more important than his film career.

It’s bullshit that he was threatened in the first place, of course, but his response was ballsy. I admire him for it.

imjustalazycat

hi guys im making this post especially because i’ll be living on my own from this october! so my rent is going to be higher than before and your financial support would really be appreciated and give me the possibility to keep art as my second part time job ;; I really want to thank my current patrons for supporting me for so long and funding my projects ❤️

my patreon

under the cut a couple more more infos ;;

Keep reading

valmoxium

graymoon2-deactivated20241009

i will never not reblog this

i cannot stress how much it does for us

a while ago, one of my mutuals was considering quitting writing. her fics weren’t doing as well, and the algorithm wasn’t favoring her writing like it used to.

so as a collective 10-15 writers, we all reblogged her fic once each. that alone put her writing at the top of the tag.

it makes a difference. way more than you think. it doesn’t matter if people see it because of you, it still gets promoted by the algorithm.

please, reblog fics

druidx

Reminder I have a second blog, @\dru-reads-writeblr, specifically for other people’s writing that I’ve reblogged.

oloreaa

Oof okay this is just me being a tad frustrated overall but:

I'm... pretty fed up with the situation on tumblr right now, not gonna lie. Yes this is about fics, and yes I do have the right to complain about it.

Because yes, I write for myself. That's absolutely true.

But I write everything what's happening in my head down for you, and writing takes a LOT of work. I would not be staying up late at night, typing sentences away on my phone or on my laptop if it wasn't for readers.

I would not be trying to make pretty sentences and come up with metaphors and check over grammar again and again and again if not for you.

I would not be editing my fics so much I almost cannot stand to look at them anymore to the point I question the quality of my writing if not for you.

Don't tell me stuff like "yes but we are reading it! There is no reason we should be forced to leave feedback" because that's not what I'm asking of you. That's absolutely NOT what I'm asking of you. I don't want to force you to do anything and in the end I cannot at all because I'm just a simple blog in my corner of the internet but it all boils down to this:

Give your writers exposure.

We work harder than you readers would ever know to get those stories you love out and it's so freaking hard to get it on paper. It takes so much energy and yes it also takes energy to comment, I understand.

But I assure you, taking the time to write a 20 word long comment is WAY less energy than the writer did to get 9000 words out with cohesive plot and creative writing.

So please, reblog. Reblog the fics you read. We writers depend on you.

buckstaposition

if I may add a little thing to this

above you see a diagram that is the result of one of the mandatory questions I put in my personal taglist form. I put it in there out of interest, and since there aren’t that many people who have answered it the result is not what one would call scientifically sound due to the small sample size, but even so you can see a clear trend. more than half of exposure comes from reblogs. Take into account that I posed this question after a while of publishing my own writing on this platform, so in actuality some of the people who selected ‘was already following you’ (blue in the diagram) did in fact first find me and my writing through seeing a reblog by someone else (or by me reblogging their writing on my blog), so actually the real number would be closer to 60% or above even.

and if you think ‘oh I don’t have a big blog with a large following so it doesn't matter’, let me say this: neither am I, but every pair of eyes counts. If you like a post you have seen it, if you reblog it for your sole follower then two people have seen it. Exposure is instantly doubled.

And if that still doesn’t convince you, may I humbly suggest: a simple message in an askbox. ‘Hey I read your story [insert title] and I really enjoyed x’. Or something along those lines. It means the world to writers.

monster-bait

I've been in both sides of this issue, both as a reader & as a writer.

As a reader I used to go out of my way to leave reviews on every single piece I read, even when I really disliked the author or didn't click with the work itself.

As a writer, I (and all of the other writers) were told to "write for myself!" by my former fan community so often, that I internalized their message--"You're not owed anything from us, write for yourself, don't look for support here"--and I started to do exclusively that.

I wrote purely for myself without care of they're being external readers. I stopped sharing my work for that fan community and began writing a completely different genre. I took down my existing fan work. I never stopped writing, I never stopped creating, and I never stopped doing it for myself. My writing improved. I began to share again for a new community. I had some work published. I continued to write for myself.

My inbox was full of messages from that former fan community for months.

"where did all of your work go?! I loved re-reading that one piece whenever I had a bad day! I'm so disappointed you're not sharing your work anymore. Will you ever write more/republish/give us back our free entertainment?"

...Excuse me?

I'm writing for myself. I'm not looking to you for support any longer. I no longer feel the desire to share with you.

Isn't that what you wanted?

Isn't that what you're telling writers when you claim they're selfish for expecting support for their work? When you tell them it's unfair to expect you to do more than consume? When you tell them you're not responsible for their validation? When you make ad hominem attacks about those writers as individuals because they were foolish enough to think the people reading their work for free might say "nice job" when they finished? Isn't that what you wanted when you introduced the straw man argument of ableism into creators' pleas of "reblogging would be helpful."

Isn't that what you mean when you say write for yourself?

Writers: you're not owed anything. Write for yourselves.

Fan communities: neither are you. Remember to support the things you enjoy.

lady-troll

I’ve a little story too, m’kay.

So, I wrote a story. Long one. Looking at the documents now, all together this thing was a a decently sized novel. That story was up for two years.

Not even once over these two years did I get as much as one comment. This is important. Not even once did I get a comment on that story. Hit counts for chapters went up regularly, but, of course, if somebody googled a keyword and clicked on the link, then it’d count as a hit, even if they closed it afterwards without reading, so I figured it was that (like, the keywords were pretty damn popular due to Another Fandom being very active at that moment).

Eventually, I got fed up and decided to delete it, because I could no longer bear to look at it, it just made me anxious and sad. But I also loved that work. I still do. But it made me sad. So, I set myself a goal: I give it 30 days. If over those 30 days, any chapter, any part gets one comment, the story will stay up. I don’t know why I did that, don’t ask.

The 30 days passed, and I deleted.

The next day. The very next day.

I get a message in my inbox that read something like this: “Why did you delete [story]??? I was re-reading it for the third time!”

I beg your pardon?

You was re-reading it? For the third time? And not even once over the course of you re-reading it for the second, or third, time, did you think that leaving a review, or at least a ‘‘thank you’‘ would be nice? A favourite, a like, at least? No?

Like, this is not to say that you absolutely gotta do it. I’m not the one who should tell you what to do, seeing how I’ve a stupid brain that just refuses to do mental labour sometimes. BUT please do not come complaining to the writer after your favourite comfort story got deleted, because everybody else as well decided to just consume without giving anything in return.

I don’t know how to tell this to people, but new works and new chapters don’t magically appear on the servers of AO3, tumblr, wattpad, or whatever your preferred site for reading them is. Sorry, if I burst your bubble just now, but they just don’t. Somebody has to write them, somebody has to edit and check them, and all that somebody is asking for, in return, is a reblog, or at least a “good job!”, when we share our stuff with you.

monster-bait

Sharing because this is important.

monstersandmaw

To reiterate - no one is trying to guilt-trip or shame readers into leaving kudos/reviews/reblogging (we know we’re posting it for free) but if you DID enjoy it, one way you can show that is by a simple reblog. It’s why it means so much to us when you do. And I tear up any time I get someone leaving a comment/ask saying how much they enjoyed something. It honestly means the world, so thank you, and I’m not complaining. It makes my week. My month. It makes me want to write. After burning myself completely out, I got a couple of nice asks about a story that mattered a lot to me, and it sparked a new story idea. It made me want to write again when someone took the time to say thank you about something I’d actually been feeling insecure about.

I stopped posting completely on here for nearly two months at the start of the year because I had a massive meltdown and made myself quite seriously ill, and no one really seemed to notice (which is obviously fine - I’m not anyone’s responsibility), but like the author in the thread above, the moment I said I wasn’t posting Patreon content on here for free when I closed it down (due to said breakdown), I got asks demanding it be released for free... These were mostly the stories that had been continued on Patreon but not on here. The thing is, I didn’t even know people cared about that stuff until they knew they weren’t getting it for free and told me about it! The point of this is absolutely not to get all pissy about it, but just to say that if you don’t show authors you did actually value their work, by helping them get exposure, how are they to know you care in the first place???

You obviously don’t have to, but if you did enjoy it, maybe take the time and effort to let us know, so we keep finding it worth our effort and free time to continue making free stuff for you to enjoy. You know. For free.

nursenotes

1. Fist: Make a fist around the epi-pen, don’t place your thumb/fingers over either end

2. Flick the blue cap off

3. Fire. Press down into the outer thigh (the big muscle in there), hold for 10 seconds before removing (the orange cap will cover the needle). Bare skin is best but the epi-pen will go through clothing. Avoid pockets and seams.

- Ring an ambulance even if everything seems to be fine!

sassyjavert-deactivated20151015

Oh my god. So as someone who has to carry an epipen EVERYWHERE I am so happy to see that there’s an info post about them. Like in the extreme case that I can’t inject myself, somebody else would have to do it, but nobody knows how to do it! Thank you, this may just save my life some day.

dontbeanassharry-deactivated201

Don’t be wimpy about it, either. I know friends who are like, “but idk if I could stab you with a needle!” Please stab me with the needle, don’t be hesitant about it.

In my case (I can’t speak for all allergies), an epi buys me 20 minutes of breathing to get to the hospital. It is not a magic bullet, it’s a few critical minutes to help get me where I need to go.

theroguefeminist

For those who don’t know, people with serious food allergies carry epinephrine which is an adrenaline shot just in case they have anaphylaxis, which is a life threatening allergic attack. This shot is life-saving and must be administered to someone who is having an anaphylactic attack as SOON AS POSSIBLE, because an extra waited minute could mean their life.

It doesn’t hurt much at all to use this needle. The first time I used mine, I didn’t even feel it. But be sure to stab it IN THE OUTER THIGH. Do not stick it anywhere else or you could seriously hurt or kill someone. Just right to the outside of the thigh and then call the ambulance - even if your friend starts doing better, they could have a biphasic reaction, meaning a reaction that comes back (or they may need a second dose, be on the look out). If your friend has an epipen, then they have an epipen trainer that doesn’t have a needle and you can try it out just to be sure you know how to use the real thing if you have to. I’d also advise holding it a few more seconds then 10, maybe go for 14 just to be sure all the medicine is administered and that you didn’t count too fast - that’s what I did.

Here’s a graphic of where to stick it:

unillustrated-man

THANK YOU FOR THE GRAPHIC I was about to ask because my mom carries one around and so do some of my friends and I wanted to make sure I would do it right if I ever needed to!

glutenfreethings

Learn about this or get a refresher, if you’re not already familiar.

ruby-white-rabbit

“I don’t want to stab you” they’d be dead otherwise. Stab em.

erasnegras

This information may save a live

thestudentfarmer

Hello everyone!

I know there's a lot of pages that pop up asking for help frequently and a lot of people don't like seeing them but today I'm going to be one of those pages.

A good friend of ours had a pet emergency happen recently. Their pup, Axle managed to escape their home and yard and was shot in the leg during his escapade,

Axle was taken to emergency vet services immediately but Due to the gunshot their baby needed surgery and unfortunatly he lost his leg

Their baby is very sweet and loves people and they love their fur babies very much, but they need some help with the emergency cost and his follow up treatments and medication.

If anyone could help, be it 50 cents to whatever dollar amount it would be very much appreciated and welcomed here is the link below,

https://gofund.me/a20e857d

Hi everyone, I’m fundraising for our boy Axle’s emergency vet visits. On Fr… Samantha Peterson needs your support for Help with Axle’s emerg

Even if you can't help monetarily if you could share here and elsewhere I know they'd be forever grateful and Axle would give a great many big sloppy good boy kisses and tail wags of happiness to know he's even more loved than he knows!

Thank you all in advance!

yourladyindank

https://twitter.com/hotvickkrishna

reasonandempathy

It has literally always been a lie. These lies have killed millions of Americans over the years. It has cost the US Trillions of dollars in lost efficiency and higher healthcare costs over the years. It has helped drag down the life expectancy of the US, meaning, ultimately, that Americans have lost hundreds of millions of years from their lives.

It was always a lie.

ajita-kesakambali

This bears repeating!

yourladyindank

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