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[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.

[cansu-m]

[bizarrequazar]

Oh this is a really good example for a lesson in how to spot AI images! Let's work through a couple of them, shall we? (Also no hate to anyone who has reblogged these without realizing, it took me a few moments to notice it myself and OP didn't tag it as AI.)

So one thing to look for in general is posts like this where there are MULTIPLE really cool similar things! I've noticed AI "artists" tend to do this a lot, showing off different results of the same or similar prompts they've used. If so many of these cool things exist, why have you never seen them before? Why is no information given of where any of these are from? That's your first giveaway to look for.

Going into details, let's start with this second image. First of all, look at the plants around the bottom—there's this weird almost rubbery texture that a lot of AI art tends to have, it's too smooth. Like how characters in video games never look quite photo-realistic—there's something just a bit plastic about them. If you look at enough AI art, you'll learn to recognize this characteristic at a glance.

Once you notice something like this, start looking at the details. The roof on this one is a good giveaway: Why are all those spires different without any rhyme or reason? And with the glass panels, why are some sticking out like that? Why are the shapes and colours of the panels so irregular?

Moving onto this one, you can see a lot of the same issues with the roof—glass panels sticking out in a way that doesn't quite make sense and weird random implements at the top. Where is there a water spout sticking up at the front like a chimney? And then you cast your eyes down and you notice—why is this building sitting on a rug?

Spend a while looking through all the images here and make yourself notice all the little things that don't make sense—the plants growing through glass, the lack of regular patterns, the lack of handles on the doors, etc. Pick a line and follow it, test if it makes sense. The next time you see pictures that look too good to be true, do the same. Take the time to train yourself to recognize these things so that you pick up on them automatically.

We are entering an age of misinformation. We need to learn to be more vigilant, and the best way to do that is conscious effort to learn the signs.

[popping-greenbean]

(contains spoilers up to raiden shoguns story quest pt 2)

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[popping-greenbean]

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[nerdykeppie]

Limited Edition Top Surgery Fundraiser Gay Heart Pin

Hi gay!! Only 50 of these will ever exist, and all proceeds go directly towards funding my upcoming chest masculinization procedure (top sur

All right, friends!

One of Jake's buddies is fundraising for top surgery - only 50 of these pins will ever exist. Let's see if we can sell Claude out today!

If you can't afford one, that's okay - please reblog. I'll do something cool if we help Claude sell out by the end of 1/27/24. IDK what, but I will!

[sandersstudies]

My husband’s job primarily employs adult men but there is one (1) teenage girl and my husband said originally he worried she might be a bit of an outcast but instead every man on the crew was like “huh guess I am a dad/older brother now.”

[sandersstudies]

She was in a car crash on the way to work one morning and called my husband to let him know she’d be late and he was like wtf guess I’m gonna be late too because I’m coming to pick you up and then he told his team and they were like I think you mean WE are coming.

[hoonkus-deactivated20230701]

Imagine you are a teenage girl probably rushing to get to work and you crash your probably new car and feel absolutely miserable and now you’ll be late to work but then suddenly in the distance a car full of all the adult men you work with just pulls up and is like “we came all the way here to pick you up” the mental image right now is fr.

[sandersstudies]

Apparently she tried to call her dad but it was 3am and he was obviously sleeping so she called my husband and he not only came to find her but fished her glasses out of the hood of the car (she’d dropped them while looking inside), drove her to the hospital, and told her to take the day off. She insisted on coming back to work so he used his lunch break to watch TV with her to make sure she didn’t doze off (concussion risk).

You’ve heard of the Mom friend but my husband is very much the Dad friend. He said when he answered the phone she said “hey please don’t be mad” and he’s never felt such powerful Fatherhood energy in his life.

[deliciouspaintthinner]

Girl: *calls for aid*

Every single dad packed into the car:

[sandersstudies]

This is possibly my favorite response to this post

[i-like-to-think-that-im-cool]

This girls father: Thanks for helping my daughter out guys

Your husband and all his coworkers:

[animentality]

[octolingrendezvous]

from back in 2021

[triskeleaficionado]

Timepiece with the fewest moving parts:

Sundial.

Timepiece with the most moving parts:

Hourglass.

[retroactivebakeries]

#sundial has some noteworthy moving parts#like the sun#and the earth

[femgineerasolution]

[suiheisen]

i watch baseball for the side quests

[dappergamelord]

throwback to 2021 when the exact same player started doing this extended water bottle bincoculars sight gag in the dugout

[stuckinnet]

this is the same guy who also made himself a fruit cocktail midgame. he is The manic pixie dream girl

[warriornunnery]

baseball is actually not a sport it’s just a documentary of human nature and how we battle boredom. the stuff these teams get up to while they’re waiting their turn.

and it’s hilarious when they pull pranks on each other, like attaching things to other people’s caps:

or the beloved hot foot prank:

or when they decided to put a guy’s pants over his head and make it seem like he was walking on his hands:

or when they opposing pitchers took turns playing tic tac toe every time they got on the mound:

[yokowan]

i take back everything bad i've ever said about baseball these boys can fucking Post

[manekinekocake]

[manekinekocake]

[yonae]

Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card by Clamp

[lakevida]

disrespectful.

[wisdomshoes]

he just kinda sucks

[lakevida]

and what are you bringing to the table

[piratedllama-art]

Quarters only, please [x]

(done in procreate)

[wanderingnelipot]

[gaysie]

i love cheating if you don’t cheat what the hell is wrong with you

[fleurdelys-fletri]

have you ever been cheated on?

[gaysie]

i forgot some people are in relationships. to clarify i love to violate academic integrity on exams

[verflares]

i've been looking everywhere for you!

[todayintokyo]

In 1982, quite by accident, a zookeeper at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture discovered that capybaras absolutely loved soaking in hot water, and the practice of providing them an onsen, or traditional Japanese hot spring, was born. Source Massimo; video @yu_haradakei.

[coughloop]

MOVE IDIOT

[quark-nova-deactivated20260116]

we need to test this on more animals. it's like ferrets in packing peanuts or sand vipers in sprinkles.