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Site Update - 2/9/2024
Hi Pillowfolks!
Today is the day. Post Queueing & Scheduling is finally here for everyone. Hooray! As always we will be monitoring closely for any unexpected bugs so please let us know if you run into any.
New Features/Improvements
✨ *NEW* Queue & Schedule - One of the most highly requested features has finally arrived at Pillowfort. Users can now effortlessly Queue or Schedule a post for a future time.
Queue helps keep your Pillowfort active by staggering posts over a period of hours or days. Just go to your Settings page to set your queue interval and time period.
How to add a post to your queue:
While creating a new post or editing a draft, click on the clock icon to the right of the “Publish” button and choose “Queue.” Then click “Queue” when you’re ready to submit the post.
Schedule assigns a post a specific publishing time in the future (based on your timezone you’ve selected in Account Settings).
How to schedule a post:
While creating a new post or editing a draft, click on the clock icon to the right of “Publish” and choose “Schedule.” Enter the time you wish to publish your post, click on “Submit” and then click “Schedule.”
How to review your queued & scheduled posts:
On the web, your Queue is available in the user sidebar located on the left side of the screen underneath “Posts.” (On mobile devices, click on the three line icon located on the upper left of your screen to access your user sidebar.)
Note: the “Queue” button will only display if you have one or more queued or scheduled posts.
A CAVEAT: It is not currently possible to queue or schedule posts to Communities. We do intend to add this feature in the future, but during development it was determined that enabling queueing & scheduling to Communities would require additional workflow and use case requirements that would extend development time when this project has already been delayed, and so it was decided to release queue & scheduling for blogs only at the present time. We will add the ability to queue & schedule to Communities soon after the Pillowfort PWA (our next major development project) is complete.
✨ End of Year Fundraiser Reward Badges: End of Year Fundraiser Rewards Badges will begin to be distributed today. We'll update everyone when distribution is done.
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As for the remaining End of Year Fundraiser Rewards - we will be asking the Community for feedback on the upcoming Light Mode soon.
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✨ Valentine’s Day Premium Frames: Alternate colors of the Valentine’s Day frame are available to Pillowfort Premium subscribers.
✨ Site FAQ Update - Our Site FAQ has received a revamp.
Terms of Service Update
As of today (February 9th), we are updating our Terms of Service to prohibit the following content:
Images created through the use of generative AI programs such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Dall-E.
An explanation of how this policy will be enforced and what exactly that means for you is available here: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/4317673
Thank you again for your continued support. Other previously mentioned updates (such as the Pillowfort Premium Price increase, Multi Account Management, PWA, and more) will be coming down the pipeline soon. As always, stay tuned for updates.
Best,
Staff
#pillowfort.social#pifo#pillowfort#queue#schedule#site update#new release#dev update#valentines#ai policy#tos#premium frames
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If you are in the US and have thoughts about how AI should be regulated, one of my professors made me aware that the federal register is taking public comments on their AI Accountability Policy Request for Comment page until June 12. You can Google that in case the link below doesn't work. Just an FYI, if you have strong feelings about this, the government is asking for them. They have some guiding questions at the bottom of the page.
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“Copyrightable works require human authorship” is a curious statement for people like us and the works we produce.
We use A.I. to create our stories, but the A.I. doesn’t do the entire job of writing our stories for us. To summarise how we use the software, you could say our stories are ‘augmented’ by the artificial intelligence. Of note, this is why we shifted away from “written by a.i.” as a suffix to all what we’ve published.
When we wrote ‘Episode X’, the incredible learning curve that it was, we wrote an opening crawl and then had the A.I. begin the story. We’d pull apart what it wrote, rewrite bits, feed it back into the engine, repeat. Of all the stories we’ve released, it’s the one where the robots were given the most free reign, but it’s still not without our hands heavily in there making sense of it all, writing pieces, and generally turning it into a ‘sort of comprehensible’ story.
In later episodes, the approach changed. We realised that, if we wanted to create some sort of cohesion and chronology, we’d need to create the framework of the story and then use the A.I. to inject it with mayhem.
So what’s the “copyrightable” component? The work we’ve put into the Banthaverse represents months of effort for each screenplay. Despite the augmentation being done with software, we consider the end result to be our work. The story, in totality, our work. Added to the murkiness that fan-fiction treads through perpetually, we use characters that aren’t ours. But if we changed all the names and places, where would the copyright begin and end?
We aren’t making big money off what we do (nor do we seek to). We have some Patrons who support our costs towards production and software subscriptions, and we have ad revenue that barely cracks the price of a coffee per video we release. “Copyright” means little to us other than protecting our effort and our recordings from being redistributed without our consent.
But if we turned around tomorrow and started creating something that was 100% our own ideas and character IP, and used the A.I. to augment our work in the same was described above - where would that leave us?
Obviously, we don’t have an answer, and we don’t expect one to come from this post, but it’s a great question to ponder and certainly one that will evolve over time.
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From instructions on how to opt out, look at the official staff post on the topic. It also gives more information on Tumblr's new policies. If you are opting out, remember to opt out each separate blog individually.
Please reblog this post, so it will get more votes!
#third party sharing#third-party sharing#scrapping#ai scrapping#Polls#tumblr#tumblr staff#poll#please reblog#art#everything else#features#opt out#policies#data privacy#privacy#please boost#staff
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@kaiasky: I'm really curious if the contracts OAi etc are signing include a "we won't scrape stuff beyond what's accessible from your explicitly provided API key" (and also like. why OAi is signing them at all)
@sysid-ace: ♠️ optics next question?
(splitting this out) Well, like... Optics isn't nothing, but feels like if OAi could avoid paying anything for their training data, they would, right?
But also. OAi already has a host of court cases where they have to argue that crawling publicly accessible stuff on a site and training on it is fair use. So a history of signing contracts where they agree to pay for the right to crawl a site... feels like it'd potentially be used against them as an admission that they don't have the right? (why would you pay money for content you could use freely?)
(But I'm not a lawyer, iunno how harmful that would actually be to the case.)
I suspect part of it is maybe also like, "regardless of if you have the right to use our content, we can decide to try and ratelimit/fuck with your webcrawler as we see fit, and if you want us to turn that off, pay us"? And if you can be annoying enough, it becomes worth it for OAi to say FINE shut up, it's cheaper to pay you than to hire an engineer to stay on top of your scraper-detection policy
I dunno, i really wanna find somebody who's in the know about this so i can find out the juicy legal bits
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Weekly output: AI executive order, Apple's leftover Lightning peripherals, Digital Platform Commission, Intuit to scrap Mint, AI policy
My upcoming work week only has about three and a half days’ worth of time available for my usual work. The entirety of Tuesday, meaning from 5 a.m. to about 9 p.m., has me serving as a poll worker, the seventh time I will have worked as an Arlington election officer. And then I’ll have to set business aside by mid-afternoon Friday to start my journey to Lisbon for Web Summit.
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#AI policy#Apple Magic Mouse#Apple USB-C mouse#Biden executive order#Boston#Brooklyn 6G Summit#Credit Karma#Digital Platform Commission#IAPP#IAPP AI Governance#Intuit Mint#Lightning cable#Mint#NYC
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There Is No A.I. | The New Yorker
"The closest we have come to a definition of privacy is probably “the right to be left alone,” but that seems quaint in an age when we are constantly dependent on digital services. In the context of A.I., “the right to not be manipulated by computation” seems almost correct, but doesn’t quite say everything we’d like it to."
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai#:~:text=The%20closest%20we,like%20it%20to.
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Anyone who follows me on here with a Twitter/X account:
In case you haven't heard, the Twitter Privacy Policy is changing on September 29th. The new policy states that any public content uploaded there will be used to train AI models. This, in addition to the overarching content policy which gives Twitter the right to "use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish and display" any content published on the platform without permission or creator compensation, means that any original content on there could potentially be used to generate AI content for use on the platform, without the original creator's consent.
If you publish original content on Twitter (especially art) and you don't like or agree with the policy update, now may be the time to review the changes for yourself and if necessary take things down before the policy update is published.
Edit: I wanna offer a brief apology for the original post, my wording was a bit unclear and may have drawn people to the wrong assumptions! I have changed the original post a bit now to hopefully be a more accurate reflection of the situation.
Let me just clarify some things since I certainly don't wanna fearmonger and also I feel like some people may take this more seriously than it actually is!:
The part of the privacy policy I mentioned regarding "use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish and display" is included in the policies of every social media site nowadays. That part on its own is not scary, as they have to include that in order to show your content to other users and have it published outside of the site (ie. embedding on other sites, news articles).
The scenario I mentioned is pretty unlikely to happen, I highly doubt the site will suddenly start stealing art or other consent and use it to pump stuff out all over the web without consent or compensation. I simply mentioned it because the fact that the data is being used to train AI models means that stuff on there may end up being used as references for it at some point, and that could then lead to the scenario I mentioned where peoples content becomes the food for new AI content. I don't know myself how likely that is for definite, but I know many people still don't trust the training of AI, which is why I feel it is important to mention.
I cannot offer professional or foolproof advice to people on the platform who have posted content before, I'm just some guy! I don't wanna make people freak out or anything. If you have content already on the site, chances are its probably already floating around somewhere you wouldn't want it. That's, unfortunately, the reality of the internet. You don't have to take down everything you've ever posted or delete your accounts, however I wouldn't recommend posting new content on the site if you are uncomfortable with the changes.
THIS POST WAS MADE FOR AWARENESS ONLY!! I AM NOT SUGGESTING WHAT YOU SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE!! /lh
TL;DR: I worded the original post slightly poorly, for clarification the policy being changed to allow for AI training doesn't automatically mean that all your creations will be stolen and be recreated with AI or anything, it just means that those creations will be used to teach the AI to make things of it's own. If you don't like the sound of that, consider looking into this matter yourself for a more detailed insight.
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A couple weeks ago I was working on a timeline for Zoltan! He's so fun to study
#dnd#dragonborn#wizard#dnd art#digital art#art#my art#illustration#artists on tumblr#drawing#dnd oc#artwork#oc#original character#dnd character#dungeons and dragons#wizardry#wizardcore#dnd 5e#dnd campaign#art tag#zoltan swizzlestick#sorry again posts are slow im still really peeved with tumblrs ai policies so it takes like three days to glaze a post#i have also been quite busy
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like sorry but if ur actually seeing an increase in students using chatgpt 2 write essays 4 ur class why is ur first thought "oh they're being lazy" & not "have i structured this class in a way that makes this student feel the need to rely on chatgpt?" especially bc the majority of college students are overwhelmed taking multiple classes working part-time jobs caring for family dealing with health issues etc etc like there are soooo many reasons a student might decide to use chatgpt that are not just "laziness"!! consider:
the student didn't have time to complete the assignment without chatgpt -> have you created an environment where students can ask for extensions without judgment? do you only give out extensions for "emergencies" or "valid reasons" (<- subjective measure)? if so, why? what purpose do these strict deadlines serve? [think about how this overlaps with students who may have "had time" but were overwhelmed for other reasons; what kind of environment have you created for these students, and does it best serve their learning?]
the student didn't feel they had the ability to write an essay of good enough quality to receive a good grade without chatgpt -> how are you grading students' work? what grading scales have you utilized that made this person feel as though they're incapable of succeeding? do those grading scales prevent them from succeeding? if so, why? what educational resources did they or did they not have access to before entering your class? how might that change considerations about how you grade? [think about how this overlaps with students completing coursework that is not in their first language and whether your grading standards are truly equitable for these students]
the student didn't feel that they could understand the material and therefore couldn't complete the assignment -> again, have you created an environment where this student can come to you for help? how are you presenting and explaining material? what opportunities have you provided for students to seek out additional resources and support with understanding? is this assignment and its correlated grading scale designed to accommodate a variety of skill levels, or is it designed with "the best student" in mind?
the student actually just doesn't care about this class and doesn't want to do the work -> why don't they care about this class? what other classes or work are they prioritizing, and why? to what extent are you willing to accommodate students who simply will never view your class as a priority, but need to complete it to earn a degree--and how is that need tied structurally to a university that serves primarily as a class barrier? what role do you play in that university structure, and is it a role you want to play?
at the end of the day if your goal is 2 prioritize student learning that means being flexible & adapting your grading scales, assignment structures, class policies, etc. to accommodate students at their level of learning for their own purposes. like if the choice is between having a student get a zero on an assignment for "cheating" versus working with that student to create an alternative assignment which they can complete & which engages them with the course material on a level they can manage then to me it seems like a pretty clear choice between "no learning" and "some learning."
#sooooo much hand-wringing in my 'leftist' university dept. rn abt ai & i'm just like um. u guys will never believe what i think abt this lol#unfortunately not in a position where i can actually outright say this 2 the profs bc i need 2 be viewed as 'playing by the rules!'#but like. sorry if i'm ur ta & ur syllabus policies kinda suck then i am going 2 make my own policies under the table....#anyway. it is genuinely so frustrating how students who 'get caught cheating' for 'using ai' are treated as like. these scheming villains#instead of students who need additional support + empathy !!! & like. worst case scenario ok ur student IS an evil schemer sure#well wouldn't u rather have a policy that accidentally gives grace 2 a student who doesn't need it than denies it to a student who does???#ranting and raving#txt
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Generative AI Policy (February 9, 2024)
As of February 9, 2024, we are updating our Terms of Service to prohibit the following content:
Images created through the use of generative AI programs such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Dall-E.
This post explains what that means for you. We know it’s impossible to remove all images created by Generative AI on Pillowfort. The goal of this new policy, however, is to send a clear message that we are against the normalization of commercializing and distributing images created by Generative AI. Pillowfort stands in full support of all creatives who make Pillowfort their home.
Disclaimer: The following policy was shaped in collaboration with Pillowfort Staff and international university researchers. We are aware that Artificial Intelligence is a rapidly evolving environment. This policy may require revisions in the future to adapt to the changing landscape of Generative AI.
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Why is Generative AI Banned on Pillowfort?
Our Terms of Service already prohibits copyright violations, which includes reposting other people’s artwork to Pillowfort without the artist’s permission; and because of how Generative AI draws on a database of images and text that were taken without consent from artists or writers, all Generative AI content can be considered in violation of this rule. We also had an overwhelming response from our user base urging us to take action on prohibiting Generative AI on our platform.
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How does Pillowfort define Generative AI?
As of February 9, 2024 we define Generative AI as online tools for producing material based on large data collection that is often gathered without consent or notification from the original creators.
Generative AI tools do not require skill on behalf of the user and effectively replace them in the creative process (ie - little direction or decision making taken directly from the user). Tools that assist creativity don't replace the user. This means the user can still improve their skills and refine over time.
For example: If you ask a Generative AI tool to add a lighthouse to an image, the image of a lighthouse appears in a completed state. Whereas if you used an assistive drawing tool to add a lighthouse to an image, the user decides the tools used to contribute to the creation process and how to apply them.
Examples of Tools Not Allowed on Pillowfort:
Adobe Firefly*
Dall-E
GPT-4
Jasper Chat
Lensa
Midjourney
Stable Diffusion
Synthesia
Example of Tools Still Allowed on Pillowfort:
AI Assistant Tools (ie: Google Translate, Grammarly)
VTuber Tools (ie: Live3D, Restream, VRChat)
Digital Audio Editors (ie: Audacity, Garage Band)
Poser & Reference Tools (ie: Poser, Blender)
Graphic & Image Editors (ie: Canva, Adobe Photoshop*, Procreate, Medibang, automatic filters from phone cameras)
*While Adobe software such as Adobe Photoshop is not considered Generative AI, Adobe Firefly is fully integrated in various Adobe software and falls under our definition of Generative AI. The use of Adobe Photoshop is allowed on Pillowfort. The creation of an image in Adobe Photoshop using Adobe Firefly would be prohibited on Pillowfort.
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Can I use ethical generators?
Due to the evolving nature of Generative AI, ethical generators are not an exception.
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Can I still talk about AI?
Yes! Posts, Comments, and User Communities discussing AI are still allowed on Pillowfort.
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Can I link to or embed websites, articles, or social media posts containing Generative AI?
Yes. We do ask that you properly tag your post as “AI” and “Artificial Intelligence.”
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Can I advertise the sale of digital or virtual goods containing Generative AI?
No. Offsite Advertising of the sale of goods (digital and physical) containing Generative AI on Pillowfort is prohibited.
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How can I tell if a software I use contains Generative AI?
A general rule of thumb as a first step is you can try testing the software by turning off internet access and seeing if the tool still works. If the software says it needs to be online there’s a chance it’s using Generative AI and needs to be explored further.
You are also always welcome to contact us at [email protected] if you’re still unsure.
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How will this policy be enforced/detected?
Our Team has decided we are NOT using AI-based automated detection tools due to how often they provide false positives and other issues. We are applying a suite of methods sourced from international universities responding to moderating material potentially sourced from Generative AI instead.
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How do I report content containing Generative AI Material?
If you are concerned about post(s) featuring Generative AI material, please flag the post for our Site Moderation Team to conduct a thorough investigation. As a reminder, Pillowfort’s existing policy regarding callout posts applies here and harassment / brigading / etc will not be tolerated.
Any questions or clarifications regarding our Generative AI Policy can be sent to [email protected].
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*rips a huge fuckign bong* i donno man seems like tumblr's new opt-out-of-ai shit is preying on the same dead blogs that keep the ecosystem of this place alive, because like those artists aren't gonna log-in to block that shit. they're dead because tumblr killed them in the first place with their policies. they're gone and the beauty of their bodies of work are gonna be sucked into the souless nothing. the ais are harvesting our whalefalls. anyway excuse me *coguhs up bong smoke so hard i shit myself*
#is this anything#REALLY should be an opt-in policy or maybe ai shouldn't be harvesting stuff here too
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Just realized I purged my Twitter and never posted this anywhere else
It was from March of last year so it’s a bit old now lol
This was the drawing where I discovered the “screen” layer setting 💀 beginning of an era for real
#evie art#drawfee fanart#drawtectives fanart#drawtectives rosé#drawtectives york#drawtectives grendan#the pig couch was from a stream 💀#also I remember the drawfee Twitter retweeted this when I made it and I was so sad deleting it from Twitter#for context I purged due to the policies on ai but like. why do I even bother anymore yk?#shits just gonna get stolen no matter what. anyways-
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I will say, I've seen some folks saying that the legal precedent for "raw" AI art being automatically in the public domain, due to that case with the monkey selfie showing that art not made by a human is auto-PD, would be the "death" of AI art
But speaking with the people who actually care about the art side of AI art, most of us see it as not only a good compromise, but even as a win-win for everyone except the megacorps.
Cause, a lot of us into the ethical side of AI art still aren't much fond of copyright, because most of us are pinko leftist-types. And, it maeks sense from a principle of reciprocity that an artform that draws from the commons (Which is what AI art actually is rather than "stealing," but that's for its own post) should in turn contribute to that commons too.
And if that so happens to let AI artists continue practicing their craft while still preventing megacorps from laying off traditional artists (because megacorps want stuff they can own outright), well, that's three birds with one stone...
#art#ai art#copyright#policy#compromise#ai artists are not your enemies#at least the ones who aren't dicks about it#public domain
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My New Article at WIRED
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So, you may have heard about the whole zoom “AI” Terms of Service clause public relations debacle, going on this past week, in which Zoom decided that it wasn’t going to let users opt out of them feeding our faces and conversations into their LLMs. In 10.1, Zoom defines “Customer Content” as whatever data users provide or generate (“Customer Input”) and whatever else Zoom generates from our uses of Zoom. Then 10.4 says what they’ll use “Customer Content” for, including “…machine learning, artificial intelligence.”
And then on cue they dropped an “oh god oh fuck oh shit we fucked up” blog where they pinky promised not to do the thing they left actually-legally-binding ToS language saying they could do.
Like, Section 10.4 of the ToS now contains the line “Notwithstanding the above, Zoom will not use audio, video or chat Customer Content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent,” but it again it still seems a) that the “customer” in question is the Enterprise not the User, and 2) that “consent” means “clicking yes and using Zoom.” So it’s Still Not Good.
Well anyway, I wrote about all of this for WIRED, including what zoom might need to do to gain back customer and user trust, and what other tech creators and corporations need to understand about where people are, right now.
And frankly the fact that I have a byline in WIRED is kind of blowing my mind, in and of itself, but anyway…
Also, today, Zoom backtracked Hard. And while i appreciate that, it really feels like decided to Zoom take their ball and go home rather than offer meaningful consent and user control options. That’s… not exactly better, and doesn’t tell me what if anything they’ve learned from the experience. If you want to see what I think they should’ve done, then, well… Check the article.
Until Next Time.
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Read the rest of My New Article at WIRED at A Future Worth Thinking About
#ai#artificial intelligence#ethics#generative pre-trained transformer#gpt#large language models#philosophy of technology#public policy#science technology and society#technological ethics#technology#zoom#privacy
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Apparently, if you opt out right now, chances are high that tumblr won't sell your info, but if you decide to do so later, you have to trust big AI companies to honour your request, there isn't a guarantee or regulation for it in place
#frown pouts#ai#open ai#tumblr#automattic#third-party sharing#third party sharing#anti ai#staff#privacy#data privacy#policies#opt out#features
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