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Who are you?

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

#my son #atsv #miles g morales #reblog

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Us turning on each other, it's what they want. I tried to warn you, Charles. I want you by my side. We're brothers, you and I.

#on god i cannot fall back into their rabbit hole my heart is cracked for them enough already #cherik #xmfc #reblog

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#this scene changed lives

#it changed Me #hannibal #hannigram #reblog

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merry ides of march

#merry ides! #ides of march #reblog

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#check when sad #reblog

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i could never be cottagecore. the concrete calls to me

#CONCRETE CONCRETE CONCRETE!! #reblog

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY WOMAN /ˈwʊmən/ (n.)(insp)

#yeees girls #happy international women's day! #the witcher #reblog

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the narrative: *starts the third act by repeating a scene from the first act but now it has a totally different context*

me: ohoHOhohoHOHOhoHO

#nier automata #lost my mind the first time #reblog

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“it sounds like you’re justifying their actions-“ i am. they’re a fictional character. i’m okay with anything they do all the time. hope this helps.

#👍 #reblog

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how many follows u got

#i mean ive had borderline 3k but this blog has been here for 5 years #i still dont get any special amount of notes lol its the usernames i always recognize #poll #reblog

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#this is very #dbh #that mission with markus and north #reblog

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#writing reference #just for the laughs #its great to remember these tropes though #reblog

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#lets see how accurate these stats are #poll #reblog

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Your posts are in an AI model

and then Tumblr decided to sell them to AI models.

Now, don't get me wrong, tumblr selling out the users to AI companies is bad, yes, they shouldn't do that. It sucks.

but don't lets get this confused: your posts were already in there. Tumblr selling them is about tumblr making some money and about the AI models having more exhaustive post collections. It's not about your posts being in an AI model, vs not being in one. That battle has already been lost.

Can you find your post on google? Then it's almost certainly in an AI model already. Think about it: These AI sites showed up before all the sites were making deals to sell their users' content, right? How do you think they built them in the first place?

They scraped the posts. Just like google and bing and such do when they build their search indexes.

It's a fundamental part of how the open web works: you want your posts on tumblr to be visible to users, right? You want them to be readable?* Like, look how much stuff broke when twitter changed their whole read-while-not-logged-in policy, ruining a bunch of thread links/NSFW links. And if it's visible, it's scrapable. That's what the AI models were built on.

I've done website scraping before (not for AI models, of course. I was doing search engines and website archival), this is just how it works. You hire a few relatively smart CS graduates and tell them "build me a scraper that'll give us a bunch of tumblr posts" and they go off for a month or two and come back with a database of a few billion posts, and you stuff that into your AI model. That's how they got all the deviantart and flickr and twitter and pinterest and so on posts. They didn't pay for them: they just took them.

They only ever pay for this shit because either:

they fucked up in such a way that the site might be able to sue them for taking rather than paying

They can buy them cheaper than they can finish taking them. Maybe they'd need to pay the CS grads for an extra month? well, that might be more expensive than just throwing the site a couple hundred thousand bucks.

ANYWAY: my point is, don't treat this "oh no tumblr is selling our posts to AI" like it's a big thing that might happen and it would be bad to happen. Yes, it's bad, tumblr shouldn't do this, this'll let AI models get continual updates of content for far easier than just scraping them would be, tumblr betrayed user trust, and so on...

but realistically, this is not a black and white matter of "if only tumblr didn't do this, then we'd be safe from AI models!"

Nope. We already lost that battle. I'm sorry, and it does suck, but that's just how it is. The avalanche has already started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote. * I'm assuming here that you don't run a private blog that's set to only followers or something. You'd be safer then, of course, but you're not really my target audience for this rant

#helpful to think about it this way- we cant stop the ai train machine #but getting uselessly anxious only ruins your day/week/month #better to focus on policies that speak about ai legality #reblog

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#bloodborne #fromsoft #art #im a bloodtingw fighter i gotta bow to the queen #reblog

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Now, rot.

#she is the moment #elden ring #fromsoft #reblog

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tav: you’re pale and cold to the touch. there’s blood on this rock and you have blood banks in your tent. i know what you are.

astarion: say it

tav: anemic

#my tav is dumb as rocks and would 😭 #bg3 #reblog