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.

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No art recently because I've been preparing for top surgery, but have a chicken video!

I've been letting the girls out for free range time in the evenings before bed.

We have Mable, Miri (Miracle Max), Oreo McFlurry, Calamity Jane, Raptor, and Frizz. I'll get pictures of them individually and introduce them better then.

A WIP of more Monster Girl, Gabby. Yeah, that pretty mask and thick feathery ruff hides a set of FIERCE jaws. c:

Back on my bullshit!

Fiancee and I moved recently into our first house. We moved in the span of just a few weeks, so that was absolutely bonkers. But we’re settling into our new house and I finally got my desk set up.

Started drawing more monster art (stay tuned for future Gabby drawings) and today I picked up D&D map-making on Inkarnate again!

The maps I make will be available on my Patreon as I finish them, along with write-ups of the cities, shops, NPCs.

Look, if I introduced a WIP on here excitedly and then promptly never mentioned it again, it doesn’t mean I’m not working on it, it means I’m slowly rotating it in my mind like a rotisserie chicken and then went out to the grocery store to buy several other rotisserie chickens while I wait for it to cook and then slowly started rotating those rotisserie chickens and repeat

A photo of Lavender the Beep-Beeps at our new house! She was investigating my friend's phone and said friend got this masterpiece she has titled: You got any games on that phone?

Drew one of my OCs, Tlaloc, as a Witcher.

... so girlfriend and I may be on a bit of a Witcher kick...

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anyway artists should be more encouraged to post sketches i think they're really cool no matter how messy or unfinished people think they are sketches are always nice to look at :]

I’m alive! And I return with MONSTER ART!!

This is a “censored” version for tumblr because no-nips-allowed. >:c You can see the original picture over at my Patreon, though! ___

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digital artists how long on average does it take you to finish a piece (line, colour/shade, etc)?

“Moon”

Doing Magitober with a friend. Here’s my Fungus prompt. :3c A fungus friend to put the ‘fun’ in ‘fungus’.

Been a while since I’ve posted any sort of content. IRL stuff has been hitting hard lately, but here’s two character busts I did, including my own OC Taru (a non-tiefling version of him!)

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Apologies to my patrons and followers for the lack of content! I'm having a chronic pain flair-up and I'm resting and recovering from that. Content will resume once the pain has passed.

i love listening to my fiancée drawing

“no stop” “oh no i didn’t mean to do that” “wRONG LAYER” “wait go back” “what line is that?!” “cAN YOU– [irritated noises]” “oh you…bastard” “what..layer is that on??”

she’s so cute djksfh