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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.

#reblogging here on my art blog! soon i will be reposting my art but glazed so the Wretched Robots can't yoink it. #so when everything is dated differently/shows up in tags again this is on the record #<3! i love u Nine Followers

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there's something sososososo wrong with her fr

#dr. temnova #parties are for losers #pafl #everyone give it up for morally bankrupt science women #literally. give up everything you have. it's for science. a noble cause.

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i'm what you call. a normal person

#my art #shucked off the dense black hoodie to discover. to my horror. an entire Other Sweater beneath #as if i didn't dress myself this morning #everything is mysterious if you're forgetful as fuck! <3

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hey, young lonely you took advantage

#ivory (oc) #ohh they're so fucked up #my art #original character #song is you're all scotch‚ no soda by sarah and the safe word!

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ew oh god seven-month-old art

#camp here and there #chnt #elijah chnt #it's been over half a year since i listened to this podcast maybe i should relisten 🤔 #don't look at this too close lmfao it FEELS seven months old <3

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i could not even BEGIN to tell you what this guy's deal is

#oc art #carnival (oc) #YESSS YEE YSYSYS YYES my fucking TABLET WORKING. #uhh #toon smp #yeah that's a thing #art #cow boy.......

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omg ms. orsinov your skin is so soft where'd you get it??

#classwork doodles #nikola orsinov #the magnus archives #she's so silly i love her :] #tma

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yeah

#carnival (oc) #my oc #doodle #My Favorite Hobby !

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art

#yehahahahwhhehwhehehw forgot to do this *checks calendar* MONTHS AGO YIPPEE