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.
So, I wrote another chapter, and the next one is more than halfway ready. Where is my mind? Dunno, somewhere fantasising about hot toxic co-dependant relationships, I guess.
hi sen! you mentioned that there's a lot of sickrent stuff on twitter. can you share some links for someone who barely uses twitter (that's me, I'm that someone) or should I just search the #sickrent tag? sorry, I have a very vague idea how twitter works XOXO
hiii!!!! here's my twitter acc if u interested
https://x.com/sen_art_acc?s=09
i shitpost about them almost daily because i have no life hahaha. and i retweet other people's stuff a lot too!
Ok guys, so this happened. I watched T2 Trainspotting the other week (don't ask why it took me so long if I love the original movie and read the first two books; life got in the way), and my brain has been absent from active duty ever since. Why? Because it's been too busy coming up with fanfiction ideas.
I haven't written fiction in forever, and this will be my first on Ao3! This is actually a chapter from a longer fic that I have in mind, but I'm not sure if I'll have the patience to bring this idea to life, so here's a short story.
hi! I just love your sickrent art! I recently saw T2 (don't ask, I knew that it was out for a while, but my life had been a shitshow pretty much since then, so I got around it just now). And it hit me so hard that I went back to writing fanfiction, which hasn't happened to me in over a decade haha
do you mind if I add a link to your Tumblr to my fic as my inspiration, cause it truly inspired me a lot? especially the strolling through the meadows piece. if not, it's fine. I wanted to tell you anyway that your art is great and I'm really happy that you're currently posting it!
XOXO
YAY MORE TS FANFICTION I AM SO HAPPY U DONT EVEN KNOW
(i read everything on ao3.........................multiply times......)
and fuck i can imagine how t2 can hit, had same experience myself. love this movie so fucking much...
and ofc u can use my shit if u want to!!! and thank u so much glad u liked it!!!
that man has the demeanor of a sopping wet paper bag and the sluttiest little waist i’ve ever laid eyes upon and you want me to what? be normal about it?