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.
palestinian lady collects gas bombs fired by IOF, she grows flowers in them. this garden is in memory of bassem abu rahma, killed by israeli forces with a tear gas to the chest in 2009 in bil’in. the garden was planted and is maintained by bassem’s mother.
with the inexcusable way tumblr moderation has been behaving, the site about to sell all content on it to midjourney, and many more problems certainly to come I've decided to jump ship here on tumblr
I'll still be semi-active on my sideblog (@l4zyb0n3s) but this site will slowly become not a focus for me
I've made a cohost (under lazyb0n3s) where I will be moving my postings to, and I highly recommend that everyone do the same. goodbye and thank you to the lovely people who I've interacted with that made tumblr fun! wish you all well!
young chinese cambodian , says something important. If there is a true ceasefire, and the genocide against the gazan people ends, dont do that white people advocacy thing, and instantly stop paying attention to palestine. Rehabilitate please! After a genocide, the economy, education, the landscape is changed for so much worse. Notice how they bomb things like hospitals, schools, and universities? its to make recovering from this harder for gaza. Its happened before for people who've suffered from genocide, for once dont let it happen again. I hope that soon, gaza can escape literal hell, brought by israel
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.