for friendly-neighborhood-androidI try to tag for common blacklist items but feel free to request more specific/obscure tags to help curate your dash, and please let me know if I've missed any important ones on any one post.
the problem with not voting in order to send the message that you hate all the candidates and the entire system and therefore refuse to participate is that it's completely indistinguishable, as a signal, from not bothering to vote because you think the system is great and all the candidates are great and you'd be fine with any of them. so you might want to rethink the strategy there
There is a chance that Tumblr will start scraping your art and images to sell to AI companies Like Midjourney.
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Important note for now: These are all speculative rumors coming from ex-tumblr employees at this point. But the important fact remains the same: You need to be Glazing AND Nightshading any and all content you upload.
Both Glaze and Nightshade are free for their desktop applications. They are developed by a team at the University of Chicago specifically with the intent of protecting artists from being scraped into AI datasets.
If your computer isn't strong enough, there is an online option called Web-Glaze you can request access for. Or, there is a new Art hosting website called Cara that has a partnership with the University of Chicago (the creators of Glaze and Nighshade) to integrate that same Web-glaze for all users to apply to anything they want to upload.
Again, there is a chance these rumors are false and this won't happen. But even if they are fake, all artists, and even just anyone uploading any image at this point, should be applying these programs to any uploaded image on the internet.
This is a periodic friendly reminder that AO3 does not have an app and is always free to use! If you run into issues with an unofficial app, our Support team unfortunately cannot help -- please contact the app's creator or support team instead.