Something I haven't really seen mentioned and I think people may want to bear in mind is that while artists are the most heavily impacted by AI visual medium scraping, it's not like the machine knows or cares to differentiate between original art and a photograph of your child.
AI visual media scrapers take everything, and that includes screengrabs, photographs, and memes. Selfies, pictures of your pets and children, pictures of your home, screengrabs of images posted to other sites -- all of the comic book imagery I've posted that I screengrabbed from digital comics, images of tweets (including the icons of peoples' faces in those tweets) and instas and screengrabs from tiktoks. I've posted x-ray images of my teeth. All of that will go into the machine.
That's why, at least I think, Midjourney wants Tumblr -- after Instagram we are potentially the most image-heavy social media site, and like Instagram we tag our content, which is metadata that the scraper can use.
So even if you aren't an artist, unless you want to Glaze every image of any kind that you post, you probably want to opt out of being scraped. I'm gonna go ahead and say we've probably already been scraped anyway, so I don't think there's a ton of point in taking down your tumblr or locking down specific images, but I mean...especially if it's stuff like pictures of children or say, a fundraising photo that involves your medical data, it maybe can't hurt.
If you do want to officially opt out, which may help if there's a class-action lawsuit later, you're going to want to go to the gear in the upper-right corner on the Tumblr desktop site, select each of your blogs from the list on the right-hand side, and scroll down to "Visibility". Select "Prevent third party sharing for [username]" to flip that bad boy on.
Per notes: for the app, go to your blog (the part of the app that shows what you post) and hit the gear in the upper right, then select "visibility" and it will be the last option. If you have not updated your app, it will not appear (confirmed by me, who cannot see it on my elderly version of the app).
You don't need to do it on both desktop and mobile -- either one will opt you out -- but on the app you may need to load each of your sideblogs in turn and then go back into the gear and opt out for that blog, like how you have to go into the settings for each sideblog on desktop and do it.
Been working on this one for over a year! Caleb constructing this new home for his found family is one of my favorite acts of love in any media and I just had to make art about it. I listened to the tower description repeatedly to prepare but I also took a couple liberties! Hope you enjoy all the little details despite the low res, anti-art theft quality lol.
If you’d like a print of this piece, you can grab one here✨
I’ve got some new BG3 inspired stickers in my sh❤️p! Wanted to draw some of my favorite items in the game while also indulging in my love of glittery stickers.
Tried my best to interpret “regency romance meets Victorian” & as someone who loves historical fashion, but disregards it’s “rules” by mixing eras, this was so fun! I kept the pants, gloves and boots from my previous Laudna mid level design & I’d love to be sewing this right now!!
Tried my best to interpret “regency romance meets Victorian” & as someone who loves historical fashion, but disregards it’s “rules” by mixing eras, this was so fun! I kept the pants, gloves and boots from my previous Laudna mid level design & I’d love to be sewing this right now!!
A couple of closeups and a look at a vest option for the Imogen design I sketched up a few days ago. I had so much fun with this one! I changed a few things from the verbal description but I loved adding in her canon accessories (circlet, bloodwell vial, family locket).
Sketched an idea for Imogen’s new look for fun!💜 Shes got a removable burgundy wool lining in her coat with some matching burgundy leg warmers, knitted by Deanna of course.
Sketched an idea for Imogen’s new look for fun!💜 Shes got a removable burgundy wool lining in her coat with some matching burgundy leg warmers, knitted by Deanna of course.