that tweet was simply too good
Meow
#friend complimented my comfy art so i felt the need to release something more unhinged#that's been sitting in my folder for some time#and todays good day for it i guess#really tho i was practicing faces and when i made this one the rest appeared on its own#hazbin hotel#lucifer morningstar#hazbin lucifer#hazbin hotel fanart#fanart
The both activate the same set of neurons in my brain
#hazbin hotel#lucifer morningstar#silver the hedgehog#sonic the hedgehog#theyre both boyfailures despite being strong#and while silver was the most hated character in whole sonic franchise back in the day#lucifer is canonically the most hated being in the world#i could go on and on with comparisons but yeah#doodling him him brings me genuine joy i havent felt in a while#fanart
Reblogged inimoose
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.
here's some instructions for anyone who doesn't know how to opt out:
- login in on desktop, it's not available on mobile yet
- click "Account"
- click on your blog
- go to "Blog Settings"
- go to "Visibility"
- Scroll down to the bottom option
- turn the toggle ON, not off
you will have to do this individually for each sideblog you have too, no way to do it for each account in one go
Reblogged thereisanamewewanttocallyou
Anonymous asked:
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.
And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.
Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.
Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.
Just tested. It’s possible to swap out pictures on already-published posts. So in that case, a solution:
Even if you don’t post your own art anymore, go back to your old stuff and watermark it.
Do it ASAP, before the deal goes through and the scraping begins.
This will not only protect your art, but has the opportunity to fuck over this deal on a pretty large scale. The more of these posts that are glazed or poisoned, the less valuable this deal becomes for tumblr and midjourney.
Share this with everyone. And i do mean everyone.