galacticjonah
GALACTICJONAH
Juno (he/him) | Freelance Illustrator & Layout Designer
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Thank you to everyone who responded, it really cleared some stuff up for me, especially in the special interest (spins? what a good word??? i love learning) vs hyperfixations department.
In other news I am currently very fucking normal about vampires. And I am always very normal about my OCs and written rp. I guess that's just that.
Hello, hello~
Can anyone describe to me in simple words what a special interest feels like - like in terms of autism? Also is it smth that can change and come on at random?
I've been noticing some behaviours in myself and I'm just ???
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Hello, hello~
Can anyone describe to me in simple words what a special interest feels like - like in terms of autism? Also is it smth that can change and come on at random?
I've been noticing some behaviours in myself and I'm just ???
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sometimes I become so overwhelmed with love and hype for my own OC that I freeze up. I can't manage to draw them and all that obsession has nowhere to go!!! they are bouncing in my skull like a rubber ball!!!!
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Yall helped me with Shadowheart, now I need help with this fool too. What tag line would would work for Gale?? Again, the usual "__ __ BOYFRIEND" wording!
Working on another sticker! But I need some help.
Do you have any idea for a "___ ___ GIRLFRIEND" tag line for my Shadowheart sticker that would fit with the other two??
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Working on another sticker! But I need some help.
Do you have any idea for a "___ ___ GIRLFRIEND" tag line for my Shadowheart sticker that would fit with the other two??
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OK so this is the whole AI situation summarized
• AIs have already been scraping data from sites for free for years
• Companies got pissed at this a little too late and are now trying to put it behind a paywall by offering things like data packs in paid partnerships
• Your data wasn't safe before or now
• Capitalism babey
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on being an artist in 2024
A year later and it's worse somehow?
on being an artist in 2023
the last half year has felt like a constant uphill battle and it still kind of does. at times it is hard to keep the worries at bay. I refuse to give up but man, the world has really shown what it thinks of creatives.
anyways, take care out there. keep the spark alive.
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RE: Tumblr selling data to GenAI companies. (prev reblog.)
At this point I'm truly wondering what to do, really. (Glaze your art and so on, sure) But even the words we write, our personal thoughts, asks, everything is getting fed into these fucking machines from any site available. "Make your own page!" - Services like Squarespace, which are what I and most of my peers use, have sneakily added the option to allow third-party crawlers to harvest data. And portfolio websites are not social media. I want to interact and I have to reach clients.
Are we reaching the point where we have to post only previews and send finished art via Newsletters or post behind paywalls? Print it out and send a pigeon to our followers' homes?
I'm so fucking tired. So angry.
I've been an artist through life-threatening depression, through working and studying full time, through moving house and country, through the pandemic.
And this? This might just be what breaks me.
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Automattic will sign a contract with OpenAI for Midjourney to learn off of Tumblr and Wordpress
Hello! Automattic, Tumblr's parent company, will sign a contract with OpenAI and Midjourney so Midjourney can learn off of Tumblr's and WordPress' art and other user data. :) (The full text of this article is copy/pasted in the cut below). You can opt out! but I truly cannot imagine a more idiotic or out of touch decision on the part of Tumblr's CEO.
First thing's first: When/if this goes live, opt out of this immediately. Do this even if you're not an artist. The more people opt out, the less valuable this contract is to Midjourney. in an ideal world, literally all of the active users would opt out, but if we can even get to 50% that's pretty delicious.
Second: Contact Tumblr Support. It's vital that you do this politely. Tumblr staff is not responsible for this decision and the point of doing this is to show the userbase's unwillingness to be involved in this, not harangue Tumblr staff. (Seriously, stop haranguing Tumblr staff). Here's a script:
Hi, I'm writing in to express my disappointment in Automattic's pending contract with OpenAI to sell user data. Midjourney is already embroiled in copyright lawsuits, and it is not possible to train it without compromising copyright, including violating the IP of artists on this site. I strongly protest this contract and will opt out if it goes live. Depending on the privacy terms around what user data is sold to OpenAI and why, it is possible I will leave the platform entirely. Thank you for your time.
Third: Download Glaze and start poisoning them prompts, my friends
Fourth: Stare into the middle distance for a second with me because holy fucking shit? How stupid can one decision be?
Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals.
The exact types of data from each platform going to each company are not spelled out in documentation we’ve reviewed, but internal communications reviewed by 404 Media make clear that deals between Automattic, the platforms’ parent company, and OpenAI and Midjourney are imminent.
The internal documentation details a messy and controversial process within Tumblr itself. One internal post made by Cyle Gage, a product manager at Tumblr, states that a query made to prepare data for OpenAI and Midjourney compiled a huge number of user posts that it wasn’t supposed to. It is not clear from Gage’s post whether this data has already been sent to OpenAI and Midjourney, or whether Gage was detailing a process for scrubbing the data before it was to be sent.
Gage wrote:
“the way the data was queried for the initial data dump to Midjourney/OpenAI means we compiled a list of all tumblr’s public post content between 2014 and 2023, but also unfortunately it included, and should not have included:
private posts on public blogs
posts on deleted or suspended blogs
unanswered asks (normally these are not public until they’re answered)
private answers (these only show up to the receiver and are not public)
posts that are marked ‘explicit’ / NSFW / ‘mature’ by our more modern standards (this may not be a big deal, I don’t know)
content from premium partner blogs (special brand blogs like Apple’s former music blog, for example, who spent money with us on an ad campaign) that may have creative that doesn’t belong to us, and we don’t have the rights to share with this-parties; this one is kinda unknown to me, what deals are in place historically and what they should prevent us from doing.”
Gage’s post makes clear that engineers are working on compiling a list of post IDs that should not have been included, and that password-protected posts, DMs, and media flagged as CSAM and other community guidelines violations were not included.
Automattic plans to launch a new setting on Wednesday that will allow users to opt-out of data sharing with third parties, including AI companies, according to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, and internal documents. A new FAQ section we reviewed is titled “What happens when you opt out?” states that “If you opt out from the start, we will block crawlers from accessing your content by adding your site on a disallowed list. If you change your mind later, we also plan to update any partners about people who newly opt-out and ask that their content be removed from past sources and future training.”
404 Media has asked Automattic how it accidentally compiled data that it shouldn’t share, and whether any of that content was shared with OpenAI, but did not immediately hear back from the company. 404 Media asked Automattic about an imminent deal with Midjourney last week but did not hear back then, either.
Another internal document shows that, on February 23, an employee asked in a staff-only thread, “Do we have assurances that if a user opts out of their data being shared with third parties that our existing data partners will be notified of such a change and remove their data?”
Andrew Spittle, Automattic’s head of AI replied: “We will notify existing partners on a regular basis about anyone who's opted out since the last time we provided a list. I want this to be an ongoing process where we regularly advocate for past content to be excluded based on current preferences. We will ask that content be deleted and removed from any future training runs. I believe partners will honor this based on our conversations with them to this point. I don't think they gain much overall by retaining it.” Automattic did not respond to a question from 404 Media about whether it could guarantee that people who opt out will have their data deleted retroactively.
News about a deal between Tumblr and Midjourney has been rumored and speculated about on Tumblr for the last week. Someone claiming to be a former Tumblr employee announced in a Tumblr blog post that the platform was working on a deal with Midjourney, and the rumor made it onto Blind, an app for verified employees of companies to anonymously discuss their jobs. 404 Media has seen the Blind posts, in which what seems like an Automattic employee says, “I'm not sure why some of you are getting worked up or worried about this. It's totally legal, and sharing it publicly is perfectly fine since it's right there in the terms & conditions. So, go ahead and spread the word as much as you can with your friends and tech journalists, it's totally fine.”
Separately, 404 Media viewed a public, now-deleted post by Gage, the product manager, where he said that he was deleting all of his images off of Tumblr, and would be putting them on his personal website. A still-live post says, “i've deleted my photography from tumblr and will be moving it slowly but surely over to cylegage.com, which i'm building into a photography portfolio that i can control end-to-end.” At one point last week, his personal website had a specific note stating that he did not consent to AI scraping of his images. Gage’s original post has been deleted, and his website is now a blank page that just reads “Cyle.” Gage did not respond to a request for comment from 404 Media.
Several online platforms have made similar deals with AI companies recently, including Reddit, which entered into an AI content licensing deal with Google and said in its SEC filing last week that it’s “in the early stages of monetizing [its] user base” by training AI on users’ posts. Last year, Shutterstock signed a six year deal with OpenAI to provide training data.
OpenAI and Midjourney did not respond to requests for comment.
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Hello folks, I am indeed still present. I've been and continue to be busy with NDA work and have had little to no time for private stuff.
Beyond that, everywhere you look, there are murmurs about sites teaming up with AI services and posting art is becoming less and less appealing with every passing day.
This is my life though. Sharing my art has been the highlight through it all. And it is my work as well, so...for better or for worse I do have to continue being visible and being out here, otherwise I cannot feed my family.
I know many people feel the same and it's just...hard to even voice the frustration, the anger (so much anger).
Sorry for rambling, idk what I want to say. It's just so hard to feel connected nowadays, but Tumblr has been my first home as an artist and I want to hold on.
Take care < 3
#the wizard talks#sorry for rambling i am in the feelings today#'i want to shatter capitalism' kinda energy today
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don’t stop talking about what’s happening
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Welcome, 2024.
Last year I moved to another country, to the coast. Where I live now, there are rainbow clouds on the sky sometimes. The world still has wonder in it.
To a better, kinder, more peaceful, more just year.
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To be chosen by a god. What an honour. What a curse...
Four brave adventurers for the lovely @rosdottir! Love, LOVE projects like this!!!
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EXCITING NEWS!
I now have an Etsy shop! Get prints and bookmarks - and hopefully more, soon.
I've never sold physical things before and because of that I am limiting my shipping to domestic UK orders - apologies for that. I hope to expand in the near future, after testing the waters a little bit.
You can find my store right here: GALACTICJONAH
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EXCITING NEWS!
I now have an Etsy shop! Get prints and bookmarks - and hopefully more, soon.
I've never sold physical things before and because of that I am limiting my shipping to domestic UK orders - apologies for that. I hope to expand in the near future, after testing the waters a little bit.
You can find my store right here: GALACTICJONAH
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Now more than ever < 3
Made this a while ago and never posted it online. There is a lot that could be said about the topic but the fury and pain make it hard to really express anything beyond well...the urge to protect our own.
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Question for friends who have INPRNT stores:
Did they get their shit together?? aka are people getting their money again, in a semi-reasonable time span????
I archived my store in spring but I want to sell prints and making my own shop is simply too much right now on top of everything but yeah.... pls let me know!!!
(tldr on that situation: there's been a period from Spring this year where payments took literal months and had to be cancelled and retried. they blamed paypal for it but I call bullshit tbh....anyways)
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