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#league of legends #viktor lol #jayce lol #the machine herald #jayce giopara #jayvik #vikjayce #my art

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#animators are so real for this #remind me not to fuck with these guys

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Pathologic 2 is on sale for $8.74

If you enjoyed Disco Elysium or Fear and Hunger, I am literally begging on my knees for you to play this game. You don't need Pathologic Classic to understand anything, and it's genuinely a life changing experience. You will be a different person when you finish this game.

#the band that wrote music for Patho used a lot of instruments for their tracks #they also spent a lot of time finding the right ones for the game #one of them is Kangling #which is the Tibetan horn made out of a human tibia or femur #this is how you know the game was made with passion

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Please be aware that the "opt-out" choice is just a way to try to appease people. But Tumblr has not been transparent about when has data been sold and shared with AI companies, and there are sources that confirm that data has already been shared before the toggle was even provided to users.

Also, it seems to include data they should not have been able to give under any circumstance, including that of deactivated blogs, private messages and conversations, stuff from private blogs, and so on.

Do not believe that "AI companies will honor the "opt-out request retroactively". Once they've got their hands on your data (and they have), they won't be "honoring" an opt-out option retroactively. There is no way to confirm or deny what data do they have: The fact they are completely opaque on what do they currently "own" and have, means that they can do whatever they want with it. How can you prove they have your data if they don't give everyone free access to see what they've stolen already?

So, yeah, opt out of data sharing, but be aware that this isn't stopping anyone from taking your data. They already have been taking it, before you were given that option. Go and go to Tumblr's Suppport and leave your Feedback on this (politely, but firmly- not everyone in the company is responsible for this.)

Finally: Opt out is not good under any circumstance. Deactivated people can't opt out. People who have lost their passwords can't opt out. People who can't access internet or computers can't opt out. People who had their content reposted can't opt out. Dead people can't opt out. When DeviantArt released their AI image generator, saying that it wasn't trained on people who didn't consent to it, it was proven it could easily replicate the styles of people who had passed away, as seen here. So, yeah. AI companies cannot be trusted to have any sort of respect for people's data and content, because this entire thing is just a data laundering scheme.

Please do reblog for awareness.

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They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

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This is fucking nuts and def grounds for a lawsuit btw

Article link

Maybe we do need to be migrating to cohost.

#god I hope someone can sue the fuck out of them

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today, February 24, second year of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The tenth year of the war. A centurys of struggle. Thousands and thousands of killed and maimed people. Endless grief and pain. Fear and rage. If you have Ukrainian friends, support them today, this is a difficult day for all of us 🫂

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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.

#glaze + nightshade everything folks

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missy doesn’t understand that she’s in the wrong genre. she believes she’s in a darkly alluring gothic romance instead of an optimistic sci-fi show. in her genre, gifting your estranged ex/enemy/lover/best friend/twin flame an indestructible undead army to prove to him that your will to power is identical is the most romantic gesture imaginable. it’s victory via surrender, it’s control through abdication. all her scheming to “corrupt” him, to demonstrate that they’re the same deep down, that his sanctimonious morality is nothing but a method of keeping his own conscience clean, that’s the hannibal gene, the lestat gene (*obviously the dynamics aren’t 1-to-1 similar, but… close enough) and missy’s tragedy in death in heaven is in that, within the narrative format she’s trapped in, she can never succeed

#this.

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King

#what a fucking legend #hope the king is in good health now

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PLIGHT OF THE BODYSNATCHER: THE (NEW AND IMPROVED) DOUJINFICATION

Fantastic Four #10 (1961): Doctor Doom switches his body for Reed Richard's, with the intent to steal his life.

[ Also on AO3! ]

#doomreed #i'm sooo normal about this (I'M NOT) #the style!! the emotions!! the characterization!! #everything is perfect

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#adventure time #simon petrikov #marceline #marceline the vampire queen #princess bubblegum #bonnibel bubblegum #my art

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#cookie run #crk #cookie run kingdom #white lily cookie #crk fanart #my art

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cringe doomreed stuff with p*ssy boy Reed here: https://privatter.net/i/7400878 or here: https://poipiku.com/9175443/9821040.html password is "yes"

#doomreed #my art #yes I know it's random as fuck #shut up ok #reed richards #victor von doom

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um vikjayce yaoi??

#viktor lol #machine herald #jayce giopara #jayce lol #jayvik #vikjayce #my art #viktor arcane #jayce talis #league of legends

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yknow AI art has ruined an entire genre of painting to me, i saw one of those smooth anime-realism pieces and immidiately thought ''ugh, AI art'' until i noticed it was posted by an established deviantart user 6 years ago. like ive never been a huge fan of that genre but it looks like a pretty difficult style to master and i feel bad for the artists who specialized in anime-realism only to have their entire market jacked by people typing keywords into midjourney.

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Be careful of Asexuals y'all, I heard they aren't fucking around