Oh yeah - all my art here has been deleted but I'm not deleting my account, hypothetically that retains the connection to the posts I've deleted that have been reblogged and the setting of 'do not share with third parties'.

I will be reposting gradually with poisoned versions. I may or may not open it back up to third parties once that's done for shits and giggles, because at this point I'm certain anything done before 2023 has likely been scraped in some form. We'll see!

But rest assured, I ain't going anywhere. Time to fight fire with fire.

Ppl: “Glaze and nightshade all your art!!”

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.

So the impending Midjourney deal -

First up, if the shit about scraping data without telling users and then telling us retroactively is true, sincerely fuck you.

Second - I will be deleting this blog shortly. I will be remaking it but it'll honestly be the fastest way to delete my posts. I know they will hang around in the reblogs, I don't know another way round it. Can't do shit.

What I will be doing on remaking is reuploading everything poisoned. Whether I will disclose that or not on remaking is up in the air, because honestly as someone disabled, below the poverty line in terms of income and stuck living with my parents so I can just have a semblance of a comfortable life with dignity because otherwise I'd be dead - I very much do like the idea of fucking up a big corpo's dataset. If you want clean data? PAY ME FOR IT ASSHOLE.

Til then I'm on my other account @chipped-chimera where I shitpost and ramble, I'll probably hold the Kerynean username on there as a sub-blog until I get shit set up for reupload. I'll probably alert people there too when the account has been remade.

According to 404’sreport, Automattic plans to launch a new setting Wednesday that will “allow users to opt-out of data sharing with third parties, including AI companies.” But it cites internal posts that suggest the company scraped an “initial data dump” containing “all Tumblr’s public post content between 2014 and 2023,” including — apparently by mistake — content that wouldn’t be publicly visible on blogs. It’s unclear what was done with this data and what data (if any) has been sent to Midjourney and OpenAI.

Well, fuck everything I guess.