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smellslikebot · 2 months

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"how do I keep my art from being scraped for AI from now on?"

if you post images online, there's no 100% guaranteed way to prevent this, and you can probably assume that there's no need to remove/edit existing content. you might contest this as a matter of data privacy and workers' rights, but you might also be looking for smaller, more immediate actions to take.

...so I made this list! I can't vouch for the effectiveness of all of these, but I wanted to compile as many options as possible so you can decide what's best for you.

Discouraging data scraping and "opting out"

robots.txt - This is a file placed in a website's home directory to "ask" web crawlers not to access certain parts of a site. If you have your own website, you can edit this yourself, or you can check which crawlers a site disallows by adding /robots.txt at the end of the URL. This article has instructions for blocking some bots that scrape data for AI.

HTML metadata - DeviantArt (i know) has proposed the "noai" and "noimageai" meta tags for opting images out of machine learning datasets, while Mojeek proposed "noml". To use all three, you'd put the following in your webpages' headers:

Have I Been Trained? - A tool by Spawning to search for images in the LAION-5B and LAION-400M datasets and opt your images and web domain out of future model training. Spawning claims that Stability AI and Hugging Face have agreed to respect these opt-outs. Try searching for usernames!

Kudurru - A tool by Spawning (currently a Wordpress plugin) in closed beta that purportedly blocks/redirects AI scrapers from your website. I don't know much about how this one works.

ai.txt - Similar to robots.txt. A new type of permissions file for AI training proposed by Spawning.

ArtShield Watermarker - Web-based tool to add Stable Diffusion's "invisible watermark" to images, which may cause an image to be recognized as AI-generated and excluded from data scraping and/or model training. Source available on GitHub. Doesn't seem to have updated/posted on social media since last year.

Image processing... things

these are popular now, but there seems to be some confusion regarding the goal of these tools; these aren't meant to "kill" AI art, and they won't affect existing models. they won't magically guarantee full protection, so you probably shouldn't loudly announce that you're using them to try to bait AI users into responding

Glaze - UChicago's tool to add "adversarial noise" to art to disrupt style mimicry. Devs recommend glazing pictures last. Runs on Windows and Mac (Nvidia GPU required)

WebGlaze - Free browser-based Glaze service for those who can't run Glaze locally. Request an invite by following their instructions.

Mist - Another adversarial noise tool, by Psyker Group. Runs on Windows and Linux (Nvidia GPU required) or on web with a Google Colab Notebook.

Nightshade - UChicago's tool to distort AI's recognition of features and "poison" datasets, with the goal of making it inconvenient to use images scraped without consent. The guide recommends that you do not disclose whether your art is nightshaded. Nightshade chooses a tag that's relevant to your image. You should use this word in the image's caption/alt text when you post the image online. This means the alt text will accurately describe what's in the image-- there is no reason to ever write false/mismatched alt text!!! Runs on Windows and Mac (Nvidia GPU required)

Sanative AI - Web-based "anti-AI watermark"-- maybe comparable to Glaze and Mist. I can't find much about this one except that they won a "Responsible AI Challenge" hosted by Mozilla last year.

Just Add A Regular Watermark - It doesn't take a lot of processing power to add a watermark, so why not? Try adding complexities like warping, changes in color/opacity, and blurring to make it more annoying for an AI (or human) to remove. You could even try testing your watermark against an AI watermark remover. (the privacy policy claims that they don't keep or otherwise use your images, but use your own judgment)

given that energy consumption was the focus of some AI art criticism, I'm not sure if the benefits of these GPU-intensive tools outweigh the cost, and I'd like to know more about that. in any case, I thought that people writing alt text/image descriptions more often would've been a neat side effect of Nightshade being used, so I hope to see more of that in the future, at least!

#reference #ai art #ai discourse #not sure how else to tag this #long post

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lizzieonka · 11 months

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Interesting article by The Guardian

The most interesting aspect of the controversy, though, is the effrontery of Huffman’s attempt to seize the moral high ground. What’s bothering him is that the data on Redditors’ interests and behaviour over the decades that is stored on its servers constitutes gold dust for the web crawlers of the tech giants as they hoover up everything in training their large language models (LLMs). Providing a free API makes that a cost-free exercise for them. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Huffman told the New York Times. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”

Note the sleight of mind here. That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service. So it’s a bit rich to hear him complaining about LLMs which were – and are – being trained via the largest and most comprehensive exercise in intellectual piracy in the history of mankind. Or, to coin a phrase, it’s just another case of the kettle calling the slag heap black.

#reddit #reddit blackout #tech #not fandom #miyamiwu.src

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dedalvs · 4 months

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Couple of advertise-y things. First, I've got a wiki where I and a group of volunteers document my various languages on a wiki that's designed to be like Wiktionary. So, for example, if you type in a form like sen, you get a page that has that word as it's used in every language I've ever created:

Then the entries themselves are kind of cool and have some info to read through:

Basically, it's Wiktionary, but only with languages I've created.

Anyway, it costs like $325 a year to keep running, because of its size (if it were smaller, it would be free, i.e. included with the hosting plan I was already paying for, but since it's so massive, I had to pay for a dedicated database just for the wiki). If you'd like to contribute a little bit to support keeping it up, I would appreciate it, but it's under no threat of being taken down at the moment. I plan to keep it up indefinitely. Mostly this is just to let you know that it's there. We had to disable web crawlers due to it overwhelming the server, so you can't google for it and find it. It's a cool resource, though, if you're interested in any of the languages I've done.

#conlang #language #game of thrones #trigedasleng #dothraki #valyrian #high valyrian #defiance #elemental

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destinyc1020 · 3 months

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They used my favorite Tom photo for his R&J announcement 🥰 seemed like a darker take on the story.

Yes Anon!! Tom's THR photoshoot is actually one of my favorites as well! 🥰

His look, the colors, his hair....etc.... Ugh... like he looked SO GOOD 😩 😍

#tom holland #THR

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sehtoast · 4 months

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The Art of Worship (Homelander x OC Smut)

18+ | 2.6k words | Webweaver, gore, dismemberment, display of a corpse, blood, face fucking, choking, rooftop sex, p in v sex, blood as lube -- yes, you read that right, multiple orgasms, Homelander is his own warning, spidersona oc | Fic Directory

Homelander was fucking furious.

Rage and indignance burned in his gut, igniting a flame that scorched anyone and everyone that dared cross his path or, worse yet, cross him outright.

The only person safe from him was Benjamin. His sweet little Benjamin. So calm and collected, patient and kind in the face of this– this slight. This brazen fucking insult.

Vought wanted publicity. Demanded it. Spectacles and events, mountains of money, free advertising from all the social media hype. Of course they'd want to pit their beloved Spider-Man against Webweaver, just as they'd done with A-Train and Shockwave. There was money to be made. They’d dangle his precious little spider over a lion’s jaw for a penny if the opportunity came about. What did he expect?

They were to have a bundle of competitions, each one specially designed to determine who was the better Spider.

Who was more fit for The Seven.

Of course Homelander had gone nearly ballistic when he found out.

Benjamin, though… He simply wasn’t taking it seriously. Subject to rants and raves every morning and night as the competition neared, the bug simply always said, “It’ll be what it’ll be.”

But this couldn’t be. Homelander wouldn’t fucking stand for it. He didn’t believe for a second that the wall crawler would leave him were he to lose his place on the team, but to see someone else sit in his seat? To tolerate some airheaded jackass, some cheap fucking knockoff thinking he was better in any capacity? Absolutely not.

He wasn’t going to allow it.

He’d worked himself into a frenzy by the time he tackled his lover’s competitor out of the sky. Completely consumed by rage, by fear and anxiety– but, more than anything, the burning need to protect. He zips through the city, dragging Webweaver’s face across building after building, smearing pulp-like blood across the surfaces.

“Did you really think,” he sneers, “I’d ever let someone like you into The Seven? That I’d let you replace Spider-Man without putting my fucking foot down?”

He can hear the whimpering. There’s still time to play, he decides, as he lands upon a skyscraper with two antenna towers that would be just perfect for what he had in mind.

He drags Webweaver’s limp form between the two, fiddling about with his hands and wrists to figure out how to fire his webs.

Imagine his surprise when it turns out to be a mechanism rather than the organic method by which Ben produces them. No bodily-intent needed to make sure the webbing’s consistency and tension would be just right.

With a roll of his eyes, Homelander begins to craft his masterpiece. He’s seen his little spider do this tons of times; so, really, how hard could it be? He works, eventually deciding it’s far more convenient to remove Webweaver’s arm than to lug his dead weight around.

Once it’s perfect, he has his fun. Picks him apart piece by painful piece, starting at the legs. Webweaver is in and out of consciousness as Homelander dismembers him, but what fucking fun it was to see the look of horror on the face of the thorn in his side when he snapped that first length of bone and ripped his flesh clean off.

“Like picking the legs off a bug,” he mocks.

Homelander mounts each limb in the web, creating a work of art piece by piece, topping it all off with a dripping, mangled, decapitated head. He doesn’t even bother pulling the mask off– it’s shredded perfectly. In his satisfaction of a job well done, he can’t help but feel his work of art is enough to rival Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. Surely, after this, he’s an artist in his own right.

When he arrives home to find his Benjamin waiting on the couch, he has to stop the bug from attempting to drag him into the shower.

“It’s a surprise,” he tells Ben when the origin of the viscera is questioned. “C’mon, I made you something!”

The look of abject horror on Ben’s face when they land on the rooftop tickles a mote of fear in his gut. He’d done this just for his little spider. Declared him the victor before the competitions could even begin. Painted the city red just for him.

“D’you like it?” He asks, the mixture of excitement and anxiety stirring in his gut. “I did it for you.”

Ben’s chest rises and falls with each heavy breath. He plucks at one of the tight strands of webbing, listening to the twanging vibration as he takes it all in.

At first he’s scared. It’s like seeing an alternate version of himself in that web. If things were different, would Homelander have done this to him? He doubts it, but… somehow, some way, it stirs something in his core.

Homelander had killed– no, slaughtered a man for him. It wasn’t even the first time John had killed for him, but this..? This was something else entirely. This was more than protection, more than retaliation.

It looked like a fucking offering to a beloved god from their most devout follower. The care and creativity that had gone into it… Benjamin would be a liar if he said there wasn’t something alluring about the fact Homelander had done this.

In fact, the more he thought about it, the more his horror was replaced with something else entirely. Something wicked.

He turns to Homelander, who stands there looking like a kicked puppy. Ben had spent too long in thought, and his poor, darling Johnny began to feel rejected.

“John?” He whispers, drawing his blood drenched lover’s gaze away from the ground. “You did all this… for me?”

With big, blue, scared eyes, Homelander nods.

It’s as if Ben’s body moves on its own. Each step forward barely registers, the hands rising to Homelander’s face are numb to sensation, cupping his cheeks as if they had a mind of their own. Before he can even realize, Ben is leaning in to take Homelander in a searing kiss, gasping and breathing in lungfuls of the iron-laced air and each of John’s little breaths.

He can taste the blood on Homelander’s lips, and something sinister rears its head inside.

“You,” he gasps between kisses, tongue laving into John’s mouth for more, “are so…”

He backs Homelander up against one of the antenna towers, taking a fistful of his suit, other hand gripping his red-stained undercut to angle him deeper into the kiss.

“So fucking hot,” he breathes as they separate.

A sick grin spreads across Homelander’s blood splattered face. That swell of pride bubbles within him once more, particularly when he sees just how bloody his little spider’s lips had become from their kiss. More than pride though, he feels himself twitch in his pants.

Benjamin looks gorgeous covered in that worthless fuck's blood.

He grips him by the jaw, pulling the web-head back in for another kiss, slipping his tongue between his lips. Homelander takes him fiercely, overcome with a deep, desperate hunger that demands appreciation for his work of art.

How goddamn thrilling to not hear a single complaint as he tore the t-shirt clean off Benjamin’s body. He spins the bug, pressing his bare skin to the cold metal, relishing the opportunity to be had in his gasp.

He takes control.

“Mine,” Homelander growls as he marks Benjamin with more blood. He extends a hand, catching a few dribbles from the stray limbs above, moving back to claim his territory.

With a red right hand, he paints his name over Ben’s chest in big, bold letters. The crimson blends with the leather of his glove, appearing as if his very essence was what smeared onto his little love bug. He finishes it off with a bloody grip at Benjamin’s neck, leaving behind a perfect print.

“So, you like my handy-work, huh?” He smirks, trailing the tip of his nose up the corner of Ben’s jaw. Homelander hears him gulp in response, feels those hands grasp at his forearms, and all he fucking wants is to put him on his knees and mmm…

He has such delicious ideas in mind.

“Maybe you should show me how much you like it.”

The glint of excitement in Ben’s eyes doesn’t go unnoticed before the web-head is falling to his knees, just like he wanted. What a fucking sight he was to behold, too. The way he nuzzled against Homelander’s clothed cock before undoing his belt. He mouths over it and, despite barely being able to feel it through the fabric and cup, John’s entire lower region twitches in excitement.

He sighs in relief when his cock meets the cool night time air, engulfed in heat near immediately as Benjamin swallows his length. Throat training the boy had been the best decision in the world, truly.

“Ohhh…” Homelander leans his head back, stained hands threading through those unruly chestnut locks. “That’s it– fuckin’ take it.”

John grinds into Ben’s mouth, burying himself deep and staying there until that hot, needy throat clamps down around his cock in a gag.

“Ah, ah, ah,” he tuts. “Hold it.” He hears the sound of Benjamin sputtering below. Homelander looks down with a grin. “Thaaaaat’s it, keep it in there. Atta’boy, Benny. My little spider– mine!” Homelander pulls out to the tip, watching his precious Benjamin choke and gasp, grinning wickedly at the threads of saliva still connecting them.

He tips Ben’s head back to gaze up at him.

“I’m going to fuck that pretty mouth of yours, and you’re gonna behave yourself.” He orders. In the background, faint drips of blood can be heard splattering against the ground. “Show me just how grateful you are that I saved your bacon, babe.”

Ben nods obediently before swallowing him once more. Homelander swears he sees stars once that tongue swipes his tip, and galaxies as he sinks further inside. He begins to thrust, hand directing Ben’s head with each motion to maximize his bliss.

He really likes the sound his little spider makes every time the head of his cock beats the back of his throat.

“Fuckin’ whore,” he chuckles through his teeth. “You couldn’t wait to suck my dick when you saw what I did for you– I just know it. You wanted to thank me so bad!”

Homelander pushes in until Ben’s lips are wrapped around the base of his cock. He holds there for a moment before setting a faster pace, thrusting blissfully into that hot, wet mouth that was just so perfect for him.

“You wanted to get on your knees the second you saw it,” he continues. “You know I deserve this for protecting you. Fuck… suck that cock, baby.”

He tilts the bug’s head back to rest against the metal frame, admiring the tears painting his cheeks and those gorgeous swollen lips. When the hands gripping his thighs clench, he pats Ben’s cheek sweetly.

No, he thinks to himself. This is my masterpiece.

He gives his little spider ample opportunity to breathe once more as he pulls out, gripping his cock to smear spit and precum across his lovely little Benjamin’s face.

Van Gogh only wishes his brushes stroked such beautiful swirls.

When that tongue juts out to beg for more, John wastes no time at all in burying himself all the way in one smooth motion. This time, though, he leans down to grasp Ben's neck. With a light squeeze, he’s overwhelming even himself– and yet he still fucks into that impossibly tight heat.

Ben’s eyes water even more, and he grips Homelander’s thighs with all of his might as he fights his gag reflex. He can’t breathe, he can’t speak, and the hand squeezing his throat is pressing perfectly against his carotid arteries.

His vision swims into blackness.

Over the deafening thrums of his own heartbeat, Ben hears Homelander cry out his release, feels him thrust forward impossibly closer, pushing his head back against the metal frame with each motion.

“Good boy, good– ah! Good fucking boy!”

He’s buried too deep to spare even a taste of come in Benjamin’s mouth, and the bug fights to not pass the fuck out from lack of oxygen. By the time Homelander pulls out, Ben's almost confident he’s turned at least a few shades of purple if his desperate, heaving gulps of air were anything to go by. He slumps onto his side before rolling onto his back, uncaring that he now lays in a puddle of his rival’s blood.

The sky is clear and the moon smiles back at him, but there’s no time to bask in it when his jeans and underwear are being dragged off his body by his voracious lover.

Homelander spreads Ben’s legs with little patience before plunging into his cunt, groaning through clenched teeth as the soft, velvety walls practically pull him in. Beneath him, Ben whines and squirms.

“Too mu– w-wait a sec!”

But he doesn’t care. Not when that heat beckons him forth all the more and consumes him whole. He ruts without care, fucking into his little spider like an animal. Fuck, maybe that’s exactly what he was, all bloodstained, fangs bared, eyes swirling red in his frenzy. Each snap of his hips caused them to slide around in the slick remains of Benjamin’s foe.

His little spider looked so fucking perfect in a halo of vengeance.

“Mine,” Homelander snarls, nails biting into the softness of Benjamin’s hips. Below, his little spider whines and keens, eyes rolling back despite all of his attempts to steady his vision. His pussy lips are parted like flower petals, and thrusts at just the right angle cause his swollen bud to slide against Homelander’s cock. The more Benjamin writhes, the more blood stains his body.

He’s a sight to behold, especially once one of his slicked hands reaches between them to slide over the base of Homelander's cock. Each stroke drags a little more of the thick liquid from his fingers and each glide of his cock becomes smoother until Homelander realizes just what his little love bug had done.

Benjamin used the fucking blood as lube.

A thought that, as soon as it fully manifested in Homelander’s mind, had him thrusting harsh and deep before spilling his load inside his lovely little Benjamin.

“Fuck–” he mewls, rutting through the waves, cock twitching with every little spurt. “Oh fuck, fuck, fuck… You little fucking slut!”

Ben had hardly realized what he’d done. In truth, he just wanted something to ease the friction. Wet as he’d been, he just needed more– and, without that godsent bottle of lube usually within arm’s reach at home, he had to take what he could get.

By the time Ben opens his eyes, Homelander is engulfing him in a kiss that is far more tongue than lips, and he’s only able to whine once he feels his love start moving again. This time, though, John is a little slower, a little more gentle. Enough that Ben found himself falling over the edge of bliss without fear of being fucked through the roof. As he came apart, so did Homelander.

Again, and again, and again. Each round requiring more and more of the crimson liquid to keep things comfortable.

By the time they finished, the rooftop had dried and the corpse no longer dripped. Both Ben’s clothes and John’s suit were completely ruined, but a naked journey home is much less humiliating when the sky is the path taken. They looked like a scene straight out of a horror movie, drenched from head to toe in dried blood.

Homelander holds Benjamin tight in the shower. Trails his fingertips over the bruises on his throat, on his hips and legs. He wants to apologize, but he earned this.

Instead, he kisses him– softly, this time.

“I’m never letting you go.” He states firmly, as if that’s all the explanation he needs to give for everything he has or ever will do. “I’m never fucking letting you go.”

Benjamin, on wobbly legs, leans his weight against his beloved Johnny.

“I love you, too.”

#homelander #homelander x oc #homelander fanfiction #homelander smut #the boys #antony starr #the boys fanfiction

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apiscrapy · 5 months

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Explore the capabilities of APISCRAPY's AI-driven Zillow Data Scraper

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Learn more at: https://apiscrapy.com/zillow-scraper" About AIMLEAP – Apiscrapy

Apiscrapy is a division of Aimleap. Aimleap is an ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified global technology consulting and service provider offering AI-augmented Data Solutions, Data Engineering, Automation, IT Services, and Digital Marketing Services. AIMLEAP has been recognized as a ‘Great Place to Work®’. With a special focus on AI and automation, we built quite a few AI & ML solutions, AI-driven web scraping solutions, AI-data Labeling, AI-Data-Hub, and Self-serving BI solutions. We started in 2012 and successfully delivered IT & digital transformation projects, automation-driven data solutions, on-demand data, and digital marketing for more than 750 fast-growing companies in the USA, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Canada; and more. 

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randomluck-ofthe-universe · 11 months

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#timothée chalamet #tom holland #hollywood reporter

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lila-rae · 10 months

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Can you link me when he called their relationship sacred🥰

Bonus from 2021 GQ ft Z

And sacred in not so many words

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spidermaninlove · 11 months

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He remains an avid golfer and plays almost daily, sometimes even with Zendaya: “I’ve given her a few lessons. She’s very naturally talented, a real athlete, so she picked it up really quickly.”)

#tom holland #zendaya #tomdaya

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tomhollandnet · 11 months

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“It’s tough when every time you leave your front door, you are working. You’re on camera. I can’t walk around New York without clicking everywhere I go. And social media was bringing that outside world into my house. I just had to get rid of it. I needed to get back to reality, remind myself of who I am and where I’m from, and just live my life as normally as possible, in my abnormal way. Which is my career, I guess.”

#tcr spoilers #tom holland #tcr press #2023: hollywood reporter

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muchomago · 2 years

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I'm Chente, I'm a wizard stuck in a grungy old web browser text adventure dungeon crawler RPG. I really enjoy old web graphics, dark fantasy, and analog horror, so this is just my place for all that.

MY GRAPHICS

The graphics I make (blinkies, page decoration, dividers, and backgrounds) are free to use for personal, non-commercial purposes unless stated otherwise. Do not claim them as your own or submit them to your art gallery. Displaying them in a stash or toy box is fine.

When used for decorating, credit isn't required, although it is appreciated.

When reposted alone, for shrines, or in compilations, please source them. I would prefer if you ask me if you want to repost them on other sites. If reposted on other sites, please source them there as well.

These are guidelines regarding my free-to-use graphics only. I hope these graphics can be used and spread around the internet, and perhaps they may get pretty lost, but I still appreciate my boundaries with what I make are respected. Thank you.

If you have any questions about these guidelines, you can always send me an ask.

If you have any suggestions for some blinkies or a graphic, you can send me an ask about it too. I don't take specific requests, only suggestions. I'm more inclined to work on a suggestion if it's medieval/wizard themed or in Spanish, of course. (:

Soy Chente, soy un mago atrapado en un anticuado RPG aventura de texto laberinto digital adentro de un navegador web que ha resistido los años. Disfruto mucho de los gráficos web antiguos, fantasía dark, y el analóg horror, así que este es mi lugar para todo eso.

MIS GRÁFICOS

Los gráficos que hago (luces intermitentes, decoración de página, separadores y fondos) son de uso gratuito para páginas personales, no comerciales, a menos de que se indique lo contrario. No permito que alegues que creaste estos gráficos o que los compartas en tu galería de arte como tus creaciones. Mostrarlos en una colección en una página o en un "toy box" está bien.

Cuando se usa para decorar, no se requiere crédito, aunque se agradece.

Cuando se vuelvan a publicar solos, para "shrines", o en compilaciones, por favor agregue un link a su origen. Preferiría que me preguntes si quieres publicarlos en otros sitios. Si se vuelven a publicar en otros sitios, por favor agregue un link a su origen allí también.

Estas son reglas con respecto a mis gráficos de uso gratuito únicamente. Espero que estos gráficos se puedan usar y difundir en el Internet, y tal vez se pierdan entre todo, pero aún así agradezco que lo que creo se respete con estas reglas. Gracias.

Si tienes alguna pregunta sobre estas reglas, siempre puedes enviarme un ask.

Si tienes alguna sugerencia para algunos blinkies o un gráfico, también puedes enviarme un ask al respecto. No acepto solicitudes específicas, solo sugerencias. Estoy más inclinado a tomar una sugerencia si tiene que ver con lo medieval/magos o si estan en Español, por supuesto. (:

#— tags of my stuff:#my stuff #my art #my music #my gif #blinkies #page decor #dividers #transparent png #— tags of other stuff:#gif #web finds #audio

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mariacallous · 3 months

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As media companies haggle licensing deals with artificial intelligence powerhouses like OpenAI that are hungry for training data, they’re also throwing up a digital blockade. New data shows that over 88 percent of top-ranked news outlets in the US now block web crawlers used by artificial intelligence companies to collect training data for chatbots and other AI projects. One sector of the news business is a glaring outlier, though: Right-wing media lags far behind their liberal counterparts when it comes to bot-blocking.

Data collected in mid-January on 44 top news sites by Ontario-based AI detection startup Originality AI shows that almost all of them block AI web crawlers, including newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian, general-interest magazines like The Atlantic, and special-interest sites like Bleacher Report. OpenAI’s GPTBot is the most widely-blocked crawler. But none of the top right-wing news outlets surveyed, including Fox News, the Daily Caller, and Breitbart, block any of the most prominent AI web scrapers, which also include Google’s AI data collection bot. Pundit Bari Weiss’ new website The Free Press also does not block AI scraping bots.

Most of the right-wing sites didn’t respond to requests for comment on their AI crawler strategy, but researchers contacted by WIRED had a few different guesses to explain the discrepancy. The most intriguing: Could this be a strategy to combat perceived political bias? “AI models reflect the biases of their training data,” says Originality AI founder and CEO Jon Gillham. “If the entire left-leaning side is blocking, you could say, come on over here and eat up all of our right-leaning content.”

Originality tallied which sites block GPTbot and other AI scrapers by surveying the robots.txt files that websites use to inform automated web crawlers which pages they are welcome to visit or barred from. The startup used Internet Archive data to establish when each website started blocking AI crawlers; many did so soon after OpenAI announced its crawler would respect robots.txt flags in August 2023. Originality’s initial analysis focused on the top news sites in the US, according to estimated web traffic. Only one of those sites had a significantly right-wing perspective, so Originality also looked at nine of the most well-known right-leaning outlets. Out of the nine right-wing sites, none were blocking GPTBot.

Bot Biases

Conservative leaders in the US (and also Elon Musk) have expressed concern that ChatGPT and other leading AI tools exhibit liberal or left-leaning political biases. At a recent hearing on AI, Senator Marsha Blackburn recited an AI-generated poem praising President Biden as evidence, claiming that generating a similar ode to Trump was impossible with ChatGPT. Right-leaning outlets might see their ideological foes’ decisions to block AI web crawlers as a unique opportunity to redress the balance.

David Rozado, a data scientist based in New Zealand who developed an AI model called RightWingGPT to explore bias he perceived in ChatGPT, says that’s a plausible-sounding strategy. “From a technical point of view, yes, a media company allowing its content to be included in AI training data should have some impact on the model parameters,” he says.

However, Jeremy Baum, an AI ethics researcher at UCLA, says he’s skeptical that right-wing sites declining to block AI scraping would have a measurable effect on the outputs of finished AI systems such as chatbots. That’s in part because of the sheer volume of older material AI companies have already collected from mainstream news outlets before they started blocking AI crawlers, and also because AI companies tend to hire liberal-leaning employees.

“A process called reinforcement learning from human feedback is used right now in every state-of-the-art model,” to fine-tune its responses, Baum says. Most AI companies aim to create systems that appear neutral. If the humans steering the AI see an uptick of right-wing content but judge it to be unsafe or wrong, they could undo any attempt to feed the machine a certain perspective.

OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood says that in pursuit of AI models that “deeply represent all cultures, industries, ideologies, and languages” the company uses broad collections of training data. “Any one sector—including news—and any single news site is a tiny slice of the overall training data, and does not have a measurable effect on the model’s intended learning and output,” she says.

Rights Fights

The disconnect in which news sites block AI crawlers could also reflect an ideological divide on copyright. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, arguing that the AI upstart’s data collection is illegal. Other leaders in mainstream media also view this scraping as theft. Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch recently said at a Senate hearing that many AI tools have been built with “stolen goods.” (WIRED is owned by Condé Nast.) Right-wing media bosses have been largely absent from the debate. Perhaps they quietly allow data scraping because they endorse the argument that data scraping to build AI tools is protected by the fair use doctrine?

For a couple of the nine right-wing outlets contacted by WIRED to ask why they permitted AI scrapers, their responses pointed to a different, less ideological reason. The Washington Examiner did not respond to questions about its intentions but began blocking OpenAI’s GPTBot within 48 hours of WIRED’s request, suggesting that it may not have previously known about or prioritized the option to block web crawlers.

Meanwhile, the Daily Caller admitted that its permissiveness toward AI crawlers had been a simple mistake. “We do not endorse bots stealing our property. This must have been an oversight, but it's being fixed now,” says Daily Caller cofounder and publisher Neil Patel.

Right-wing media is influential, and notably savvy at leveraging social media platforms like Facebook to share articles. But outlets like the Washington Examiner and the Daily Caller are small and lean compared to establishment media behemoths like The New York Times, which have extensive technical teams.

Data journalist Ben Welsh keeps a running tally of news websites blocking AI crawlers from OpenAI, Google, and the nonprofit Common Crawl project whose data is widely used in AI. His results found that approximately 53 percent of the 1,156 media publishers surveyed block one of those three bots. His sample size is much larger than Originality AI’s and includes smaller and less popular news sites, suggesting outlets with larger staffs and higher traffic are more likely to block AI bots, perhaps because of better resourcing or technical knowledge.

At least one right-leaning news site is considering how it might leverage the way its mainstream competitors are trying to stonewall AI projects to counter perceived political biases. “Our legal terms prohibit scraping, and we are exploring new tools to protect our IP. That said, we are also exploring ways to help ensure AI doesn’t end up with all of the same biases as the establishment press,” Daily Wire spokesperson Jen Smith says. As of today, GPTBot and other AI bots were still free to scrape content from the Daily Wire.

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