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zuko-always-lies · 2 months

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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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nobodysuspectsthebutterfly · 2 months

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FYI artists and writers: some info regarding tumblr's new "third-party sharing" (aka selling your content to OpenAI and Midjourney)

You may have already seen the post by @staff regarding third-party sharing and how to opt out. You may have also already seen various news articles discussing the matter.

But here's a little further clarity re some questions I had, and you may too. Caveat: Not all of this is on official tumblr pages, so it's possible things may change.

(1) "I heard they already have access to my data and it doesn't really matter if I opt out"

From the 404 article:

A new FAQ section we reviewed is titled “What happens when you opt out?” states “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.”

So please, go click that opt-out button.

(2) Some future user: "I've been away from tumblr for months, and I just heard about all this. I didn't opt out before, so does it make a difference anymore?"

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.”

It should make a difference! Go click that button.

(3) "I opted out, but my art posts have been reblogged by so many people, and I don't know if they all opted out. What does that mean for my stuff?"

This answer is actually on the support page for the toggle:

This option will prevent your blog's content, even when reblogged, from being shared with our licensed network of content and research partners, including those that train AI models.

And some further clarification by the COO and a product manager:

zingring: A couple people from work have reached out to let me know that yes, it applies to reblogs of "don't scrape" content. If you opt out, your content is opted out, even in reblog form. cyle: yep, for reblogs, we're taking it so far as "if anybody in the reblog trail has opted out, all of the content in that reblog will be opted out", when a reblog could be scraped/shared.

So not only your reblogged posts, but anyone who contributed in a reblog (such as posts where someone has been inspired to draw fanart of the OP) will presumably be protected by your opt-out. (A good reason to opt out even if you yourself are not a creator.)

Furthermore, if you the OP were offline and didn't know about the opt-out, if someone contributed to a reblog and they are opted out, then your original work is also protected. (Which makes it very tempting to contribute "scrapeable content" now whenever I reblog from an abandoned/disused blog...)

(4) "What about deleted blogs? They can't opt out!"

I was told by someone (not official) that he read "deleted blogs are all opted-out by default". However, he didn't recall the source, and I can't find it, so I can't guarantee that info. If I get more details - like if/when tumblr puts up that FAQ as reported in the 404 article - I will add it here as soon as I can.

Edit, tumblr has updated their help page for the option to opt-out of third-party sharing! It now states:

The content which will not be shared with our licensed network of content and research partners, including those that train AI models, includes: • Posts and reblogs of posts from blogs who have enabled the "Prevent third-party sharing" option. • Posts and reblogs of posts from deleted blogs. • Posts and reblogs of posts from password-protected blogs. • Posts and reblogs of posts from explicit blogs. • Posts and reblogs of posts from suspended/deactivated blogs. • Private posts. • Drafts. • Messages. • Asks and submissions which have not been publicly posted. • Post+ subscriber-only posts. • Explicit posts.

So no need to worry about your old deleted blogs that still have reblogs floating around. *\o/*

But for your existing blogs, please use the opt out option. And a reminder of how to opt out, under the cut:

The opt-out toggle is in Blog Settings, and please note you need to do it for each one of your blogs / sideblogs.

On dashboard, the toggle is at https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/blogname [replace "blogname" as applicable] down by Visibility:

For mobile, you need the most recent update of the app. (Android version 33.4.1.100, iOs version 33.4.) Then go to your blog tab (the little person icon), and then the gear icon for Settings, then click Visibility.

Again, if you have a sideblog, go back to the blog tab, switch to it, and go to settings again. Repeat as necessary.

If you do not have access to the newest version of the app for whatever reason, you can also log into tumblr in your mobile browser. Same URL as per desktop above, same location.

Note you do not need to change settings in both desktop and the app, just one is fine.

I hope this helps!

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genderfluid-culture-iss · 2 months

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Remember to turn this on because it’s not turned on by default!! You also have to go and do it for every individual side blog which is annoying as hell.

While you’re at it, however—one way to fuck with his whole thing would be to create random blogs you never intend to use and then just post incomprehensible stuff. (aka keyboard smashes or just a bunch of random words that don’t make sense) Doing this will deplete the quality of the AI if you let them take the data from THOSE blogs.

ALSO EDIT FOR THOSE WHO CAN’T FIND IT ON MOBILE: scroll all the way down in blog settings. It’s around the bottom-ish.

#Not culture #not a culture post #not culture post #Mod post #ai #third party sharing

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thediktatortot · 2 months

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Hey non-tumblr-artist art repost accounts;

Turn off your fucking third-party sharing or you'll be getting OTHER PEOPLE'S ART stolen.

#I don't always agree wit these accounts being here because I'm sure no permission was gained #but they NEED to protect the artists they are trying to advocate for #art #anti ai #third party sharing

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kudos-si-do · 2 months

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#am i allowed to just repost this every time there's some sort of Tumblr Event™?#third party sharing #midjourney #openai #tumblr drama #psych #shawn spencer #henry spencer

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the960writers · 2 months

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In light of the current shit with tumblr making us opt-out of sharing our blogs with AI scrapers, I checked the state of Wordpress for this and, not surprisingly since it's the same company, you need to opt out there too.

If you have a wordpress-blog of the NAME.wordpress.com kind, you need to go into Settings and under the section Privacy, hit the checkmark for "Prevent third-party sharing for NAME.wordpress.com".

I know some of us here at writeblr have secondary blogs on wordpress, so make sure to opt-out of AI scraping there.

#AI scraping #tumblr #wordpress #AI opt-out #third party sharing #AI shit #writeblr #publishing #indie publishing #self publishing

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weird-little-horsey · 2 months

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Hi everyhorsey, I'm turning off reblogs temporarily (and potentially permanently) for every post except this one and this other one.

I really didn't want to have to, but I treasure my art, and Tumblr's recent decision to automatically opt blogs into AI crawling scares me. I have opted out on my blog, but I can't guarantee that other people will opt out on their blogs before reblogging. I also will not be posting after this, at least until something changes.

Tumblr @staff, you NEED to make this an opt-in feature, not opt-out. As another user pointed out, opting people in by default is very likely a GDPR violation.

Similar things have happened on other websites. For example, DeviantArt opted its users into AI crawling automatically, and they got in serious hot water with their userbase.

Eventually, they switched to opting users out automatically, but the damage was done. Countless users had their artwork scraped for AI generation, and this was a violation of trust that broke the camel's back for many users... Including me.

You cannot abuse your userbase like this and expect that there will be no consequences. You cannot say one thing and do another. I'll give you a month, and if nothing changes, I'll pack my bags and leave.

#tumblr #tumblr staff #staff #third party sharing #ai #anti ai #protect your art #third-party sharing #not horsey

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foreversaba · 2 months

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A guide to Glazing your art so that AI cannot take it without consent:

Now that tumblr is selling our works to midjourney, here's how to protect yourself. Quote:

Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry.

It was developed by the same team as Nightshade, a more extreme version that aims to poison datasets taken without consent.

Go to https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ where the official program can be found under "Download Glaze".

Download the appropriate version

wherever your downloads are stored, go there and extract the .zip by right-clicking > extract all, or the button in the file explorer.

Important!! Inside the unzipped folder, check if any folders failed to unzip. This is a common error and glaze will give you an error if any folders remain unzipped!

Find Glaze.exe in your folder and double click to run it. (You can also pin it to start or your desktop for easy access. It doesn't appear in a list of recently installed programs because it's not an install.)

Their cute little UI will notify you that it's downloading resources for a few minutes.

Ready to go!

Select your image(s), settings and an output folder before you run it. (You can even select the same image multiple times if you want it to run a few times with different glazes.) Then Run Glaze.

(It will even kindly run on your graphics card if you have one.)

If any errors occur after clicking Glaze, the darker square will give you some python-related text saying what to do. This was extensively for the devs, do not be alarmed. Go back and check for unzipped folders inside the Glaze folder, that's usually the cause of every mistake.

Let it run for the estimated time. (don't close it before it's done, I've done that by accident lol). The image will just show up in your output folder when it's done.

Booyah! Art Glazed. Art from my art blog with no glaze, default glaze and high glaze:

It will look a bit like compression artifacts, but rather that than a huge watermark on my work.

addendum:

it takes a while to clear up its own cache. Just wait a bit before glazing again because it will take too much memory if you try again immediately.

#anti ai #fuck ai #artists on tumblr #artist advice #generative ai #signal boost #tumblr #fuck ai art #data selling #ai #tumblr ai #psa #midjourney #third party sharing #glaze #nightshade #glaze guide

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frownatic · 2 months

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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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yet-still-just-a-moth · 2 months

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Guys! Guys!

You know what I just realised? If everyone, or at least most people opt out of third-party sharing, who's left on Tumblr for AI to creep on?

Porn bots

They will be training their AI on porn bots

I repeat: There will be a whole-ass AI model owned by Midjourney that has been presented porn bots as the blueprint of human behaviour

So guys, go to blog settings -> visibility -> prevent third-party sharing for [blog name], and cost those companies fucking bazillions of dollars on having to prevent their AI from sending AI-generated dick picks to random users. Go!!! Do it!!!

#fuck midjourney #ai #fuck ai #third party sharing #protect yourself #and your art #and your shitposts #make them regret coming here

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another-template-blog · 2 months

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Settings > Visibility > Prevent third party sharing

Remember to turn on “prevent third party sharing” everyone, those fucking robots don’t deserve your shit. Support REAL artists and not that gross mockery of art. Thank you to anyone who creates on this site, and on the internet as a whole, despite the risks that your labor will be bastardized by a bunch of lines of code and a company with a moral compass pointing to the gutter. Corporations will never give two shits about your rights, privacy, or creations. If they can steal from you, they will steal from you. Don’t let them.

#not a resource #not a template #gdocs #artists on tumblr #ai art is art theft #third party sharing #don’t steal our shit #capitalist hell #anti capitalist #political tags for once

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cyannmoo · 2 months

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Ok, since this AI bull they want to bring to tumblr, it makes me wonder what they're going to do with posts from deactivated accounts?

I'm pretty sure there's a lot of trouble they can get into if they allow these posts to be used in AI generators when the owners of the posts do not have a say.

#tumblr #anti ai #tumblr news #third party sharing #ai

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the-metatron · 2 months

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Honestly, I'm a bit tempted to allow this.

I have so much knowledge, wisdom, and experience to share and AI could learn quite a lot from me. Don't you think?

#The Metatron is torn #AI #third party sharing #Tumblr Live Part 2: Nobody Wants This Boogaloo #Good omens #Ineffable #Metatron

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imjustwritingg · 1 month

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hey friends…for those that don’t know, especially content creators that post here, you might wanna turn this setting on under visibility 🫠

#content creators #tumblr tips #the more you know #fyi #tumblr settings #third party sharing #no thank you #fuck AI

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kristiliqua · 2 months

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to all artists and everyone following me (just in case) please turn this ON !!!

where to find the setting: account settings > Visibility

for desktop/browser: account > select blog > Blog settings (in lower right , above mass post editor) — it should be there when you scroll down !

#important #important psa #third party sharing #AI model #fuck ai #data sharing #artists on tumblr #idfk what i should tag here tbh

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littlebitfurtheron · 2 months

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i think, after turning on the setting that prevents tumblr from selling ur posts to ai trainers, everyone should also make another, silly little blog, where you don't turn it on and then just post absolute gobbledygook garbage that makes no sense, maybe throw in some nightshaded images or whatever that ai poisoner is called i think it'd be fun! if we all band together in this we can collectively destroy ai in the process. the history books will look back on this site that was known as tumblr and rejoice

example. first sentence of post: This is my extended research on the phenomena of aurora borealis in Skinner's kitchen.

rest of post: garfield looker soup how yet we later cried. borealis flopped on cradle lily once not haberdashery. see the wowza cranium okay?

#tumblr #anti ai #ai scraping #third party sharing

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