Please be aware that the "opt-out" choice is just a way to try to appease people. But Tumblr has not been transparent about when has data been sold and shared with AI companies, and there are sources that confirm that data has already been shared before the toggle was even provided to users.

Also, it seems to include data they should not have been able to give under any circumstance, including that of deactivated blogs, private messages and conversations, stuff from private blogs, and so on.

Do not believe that "AI companies will honor the "opt-out request retroactively". Once they've got their hands on your data (and they have), they won't be "honoring" an opt-out option retroactively. There is no way to confirm or deny what data do they have: The fact they are completely opaque on what do they currently "own" and have, means that they can do whatever they want with it. How can you prove they have your data if they don't give everyone free access to see what they've stolen already?

So, yeah, opt out of data sharing, but be aware that this isn't stopping anyone from taking your data. They already have been taking it, before you were given that option. Go and go to Tumblr's Suppport and leave your Feedback on this (politely, but firmly- not everyone in the company is responsible for this.)

Finally: Opt out is not good under any circumstance. Deactivated people can't opt out. People who have lost their passwords can't opt out. People who can't access internet or computers can't opt out. People who had their content reposted can't opt out. Dead people can't opt out. When DeviantArt released their AI image generator, saying that it wasn't trained on people who didn't consent to it, it was proven it could easily replicate the styles of people who had passed away, as seen here. So, yeah. AI companies cannot be trusted to have any sort of respect for people's data and content, because this entire thing is just a data laundering scheme.

Please do reblog for awareness.

reminder that i'm not posting my art or hobbies here anymore

pillowfort.social/posts/4524956

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.

So hey, if tumblr starts selling user data and images to Midjourney, I'll never be posting here again and you can find me here:

cohost.org/ceylon-tae I haven't uploaded my art here but I'm following more people here. pillowfort.social/Ceylon-Tae I have uploaded more of my art here but I have less people to follow. If you need invite codes, let me know and I'll get you one! I don't really use twitter since it's circling the drain and is also in bed with AI scraping. And I don't have a bluesky yet because I-don't-know-why, I haven't gotten off my ass and I prefer something like cohost or pillowfort anyway.

People who are following me and wouldn't mind me following them on these sites, please let me know what your username is!

Made a Snow Quag instead of making dinner again

This one is swimming :)

She's gotta like one of these, right?

I don't think the saying is The Best but it is what she requested. You can tell which one of us has gone to 20+ years of therapy on and off and which one of us listens to "Don't Worry Be Happy" when I say "If this were for me I would write Worry Is An Oppprtunity To Reflect, like hey what are you worrying about, can we look at it another way, how urgent is it, how long have you been thinking about it, etc"

But she traded me a copy of This Is How You Lose The Time War for this so what was I supposed to do

I'm messing around with watercolors, on index cards of all things, and it is way weirder than I remember watercolors being. Probably because of the index cards.

It's like the cards are saying to me

Control is an illusion you'll soon be cleansed of

So earlier was a set of three tests

Now we wait for the first set of Real Actual Attempts

Then do three more

The anticipation is killing me

I'm messing around with watercolors, on index cards of all things, and it is way weirder than I remember watercolors being. Probably because of the index cards.

It's like the cards are saying to me

Control is an illusion you'll soon be cleansed of

I'm messing around with watercolors, on index cards of all things, and it is way weirder than I remember watercolors being. Probably because of the index cards.

It's like the cards are saying to me

Control is an illusion you'll soon be cleansed of

It’s like this, right?

how would cutman wear gaming headphones?

My bathroom mural is finally done!! I can take the tape down now!!

The previous resident here had a dark blue bathroom and I'd always intended to put up some stars and make it Night Sky Themed... but then the condo people patched seemingly random parts of the drywall and left me to paint it. So I said "fuck it, aurora borealis time". I'm very happy with it.

And it honestly wasn't until after I'd started that I remembered the Steamed Hams memes, but now I am VERY very happy with it.

Instead of making dinner, I made a Quag

The snow was wayyy too good for packing and carving to go inside after shoveling

Happy Tomorroween is Halloween 🎃

Drawing a butterfly on the thankyou card, referenced from the clipart on the birthday card my aunt sent me, in lieu of having much to actually say to her

Spontaneous art trade with sneaky_spitz on telegram of their character Usagi 💖🧡💜

She matched the colors of the color mechanical pencil leads that I own, so I had to make a little experiment :p

I'm finally back to doing calligraphy for fun and chaos

Happy Labor Day!

(bonus content under the readmore)

Some requests from friends, too

Also, back when I started this hobby around Thanksgiving 2021, Todaybor Day was one of my first exercises! Here's to progress!

I forgot I never posted this lovely Gumby I drew last year from @stickyfrogs​ (originally posted 8-22-21 on post/660239088366043136)

This is the first frog drawing of mine I’ve ever been really proud of so of course it was on my shitty sketch paper lmao

I love tree frog toebeans so much though you don’t understand