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Monterey Bay Aquarium
Origami Around
Xuebing Du
tumblr dot com
Three Goblin Art
noise dept.
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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Today's Document
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Kaledo Art
shark vs the universe
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@wireless-art
PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.
you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.
to opt out, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.
you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Donut: “A forbidden romance? How scandalous!”
Washington: “Donut, please.”
Washnut, 2023
Donut: “A forbidden romance? How scandalous!”
Washington: “Donut, please.”
Washnut, 2023
Finally getting the groove back into drawing. I’m embracing traditional more again, and I have a new art development to share :3c Might take a bit to color between work and life events, but trying to reserve an hr a day at least to finish this piece.
I wrote a public blog post that goes through the process of formatting your art to post online safely by reducing the DPI and file size without losing overall visual quality. Read it now here!
As soon as life stops throwing shit my way and I can finally pick up a paper and pen, I'll be unstoppable.
Feel free to give this a like. Spring Break!
Thank you everyone! We won the Social Butterfly award. HOOT GROWL!
Feel free to give this a like. Spring Break!
My creative output has been severely impacted. I'm currently getting PT for lower back pain, which is partly why these past few months have been very dead.
Plus side, I've been occasionally writing fanfiction. I've also taken up embroidery again so I've been working on a piece on and off. And I've been making new dnd ocs. So at least I've not been complefely blocked, just nothing to share yet and idk when I will have anything.
To: @xziris for the @redvsbluesecretsanta event
Merry Christmas and happy holidays, from me to you! I hope you like it 💝 Bonus sketch under the cut:
Fall from grace
Will be on hiatus for art until December. I'm preparing for NanoWrimo this year. That said, I might post some excerpts during the writing process.
WIP Wednesday, have a College AU!Abbey sneak peek
Hot Maine Summer, 2021
If anyone ever has a prompt feel free to toss it in my inbox (namely the characters/fandoms I already draw for). Sometimes I want to draw but have no idea what, and it couldn't hurt to have a backup plan if I have nothing lined up.
Double O Donut Reporting for Duty!
Took a few tries to get him right but with some hard determination and extra help, these hands finally figured out how to get results.
06/19/2021
