Just a reminder with Tumblr getting ready to sell your data to AI: Nightshade and Glaze are two programs that poison your artwork (and possibly photography? Unclear) when it's added to AI datapools. Now would be a FANTASTIC time to go Glaze and otherwise poison your work so that if it gets collected against your will, it becomes super obnoxious to AI and has to be removed.
If Tumblr actually trains AI on the content we as users post it might be time to a) move or b) use tools to protect our content against AI training (looking into using art shield and Nightshade in the future myself just to be sure)
As an artist I personally despise any form of Ai - I know I might not be "good" enough as an artist to have my art stolen this way but I feel like every artist that loves their hobby should look into protection of their work
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.
since the gays im currently fixating on are my tav x gale and there are no edits or fanarts to feed upon— i reckon i have to take the matters into my own hands *sigh*
pose ref was that one photo people use for their ocs (you know which one)
anyway please tell me you care about them so that i have motivation to draw more (plsplsplsplspslps)