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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.

#unsure of legitimacy but better safe than sorry #taking pictures down for now cus honestly i havent touched this in a While #I'll plan to be back when tumblr leadership gets off their bullshit

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Turns out it's hard to get out and take pictures when you can't get out of the house..

Question: would you guys be interested in seeing photography of mine that's not related to this blog's theme? Should I make another blog for it?

Also, I just wanted to thank all of you wonderful people for liking and reblogging my posts! I never thought I'd get such a response, and it makes me really happy to see folks enjoying my work.

#not photography #any feedback is appreciated #im still new to actually posting on here