Anonymous asked:
I hope the AI scrapers like pornbots cause there’s no way those are opting out
ayeforscotland answered:
I know I made it but I've laughed at this every single fucking time someone's reblogged it and I've clicked the notification.
Anonymous asked:
I hope the AI scrapers like pornbots cause there’s no way those are opting out
ayeforscotland answered:
I know I made it but I've laughed at this every single fucking time someone's reblogged it and I've clicked the notification.
Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you.
AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.
Here are the important details:
If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.
It's not acquiring.
It's stealing content.
And that is why we at Pillowfort are working hard at keeping Generative AI off of our platform. Our users spoke and it was overwhelmingly clear that Generative AI should not be welcomed at Pillowfort. We are doing everything we can with our limited funding and staff to stand up for our community.
September 2023 we blocked Chat-GPT from scraping content on Pillowfort.
February 2024 we have updated our policy to prohibit content created through the use of generative AI programs such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Dall-E on Pillowfort.
We formed our policy in collaboration with international university researchers. We do expect as the situation continues to evolve that our current policy may need revisions in the future.
It isn't perfect but it is worth everything to us (even if we fail) to protect artists, writers, and creators.
Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you.
AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.
Here are the important details:
If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.
Surprisingly, nowhere in this post, does Tumblr explicitly say that they've partnered with OpenAI and Midjourney to let them scrape your content unmitigated unless you opt out.
Forcing within your site's settings that everyone is giving automatic consent until they notice and opt out is fucking unethical. DeviantArt already tried this and got their asses handed to them.
Scream it from the fucking rooftops until these dumbasses get the picture.
Please be aware that the "opt-out" choice is just a way to try to appease people. But Tumblr has not been transparent about when has data been sold and shared with AI companies, and there are sources that confirm that data has already been shared before the toggle was even provided to users.
Also, it seems to include data they should not have been able to give under any circumstance, including that of deactivated blogs, private messages and conversations, stuff from private blogs, and so on.
Do not believe that "AI companies will honor the "opt-out request retroactively". Once they've got their hands on your data (and they have), they won't be "honoring" an opt-out option retroactively. There is no way to confirm or deny what data do they have: The fact they are completely opaque on what do they currently "own" and have, means that they can do whatever they want with it. How can you prove they have your data if they don't give everyone free access to see what they've stolen already?
So, yeah, opt out of data sharing, but be aware that this isn't stopping anyone from taking your data. They already have been taking it, before you were given that option. Go and go to Tumblr's Suppport and leave your Feedback on this (politely, but firmly- not everyone in the company is responsible for this.)
Finally: Opt out is not good under any circumstance. Deactivated people can't opt out. People who have lost their passwords can't opt out. People who can't access internet or computers can't opt out. People who had their content reposted can't opt out. Dead people can't opt out. When DeviantArt released their AI image generator, saying that it wasn't trained on people who didn't consent to it, it was proven it could easily replicate the styles of people who had passed away, as seen here. So, yeah. AI companies cannot be trusted to have any sort of respect for people's data and content, because this entire thing is just a data laundering scheme.
Please do reblog for awareness.
I hate you AI, I hate you sites making deals with souless corporations that think creativity can be replicated by an unthinking machine, I hate you money-hungry investors and ceos, I hate you opt-out models, I hate you tech bros, I hate you having to spend precious free time having to scramble our art in a desperate attempt not to getting stolen from, I hate you minimization of the hard work we put into our craft, I hate ''''machine learning''''' being compared to a very human person putting in the hours to better themselves, I hate you commodification of the very core of human's expression, I hate you scams being helped along by uber plagiarism, I hate you AI, I hate you AI, I hate you AI, I HATE YOU AI
Are You Opting Out of Tumblr Allowing Third Party AI Model's to Train on Your Data?
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I hadn't heard of this before, but now I'll opt out
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I'm planning on abandoning tumblr and deleting my blogs
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See ResultsFrom instructions on how to opt out, look at the official staff post on the topic. It also gives more information on Tumblr's new policies. If you are opting out, remember to opt out each separate blog individually.
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So far: 34 votes, only 5 reblogs.
Something I haven't really seen mentioned and I think people may want to bear in mind is that while artists are the most heavily impacted by AI visual medium scraping, it's not like the machine knows or cares to differentiate between original art and a photograph of your child.
AI visual media scrapers take everything, and that includes screengrabs, photographs, and memes. Selfies, pictures of your pets and children, pictures of your home, screengrabs of images posted to other sites -- all of the comic book imagery I've posted that I screengrabbed from digital comics, images of tweets (including the icons of peoples' faces in those tweets) and instas and screengrabs from tiktoks. I've posted x-ray images of my teeth. All of that will go into the machine.
That's why, at least I think, Midjourney wants Tumblr -- after Instagram we are potentially the most image-heavy social media site, and like Instagram we tag our content, which is metadata that the scraper can use.
So even if you aren't an artist, unless you want to Glaze every image of any kind that you post, you probably want to opt out of being scraped. I'm gonna go ahead and say we've probably already been scraped anyway, so I don't think there's a ton of point in taking down your tumblr or locking down specific images, but I mean...especially if it's stuff like pictures of children or say, a fundraising photo that involves your medical data, it maybe can't hurt.
If you do want to officially opt out, which may help if there's a class-action lawsuit later, you're going to want to go to the gear in the upper-right corner on the Tumblr desktop site, select each of your blogs from the list on the right-hand side, and scroll down to "Visibility". Select "Prevent third party sharing for [username]" to flip that bad boy on.
(If someone wants to post a link in notes to instructions for doing it on the app, I haven't updated mine so the option doesn't appear and I don't know where to find it.)
PSA TO ANYONE WHO DOESNT EVEN MAKE ART, DISABLE AI DATA COLLECTION ON YOUR BLOG
ART REBLOGGED TO AN ACCOUNT WITH THIS ENABLED WILL ALLOW MIDJOURNEY TO USE THE ORIGINAL POSTERS WORKS WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT
Like, I know AI's gonna be a thing for a while and all that
But, after nft's, crypto whatevers, and hell knows what else
I'm tired of tech gettin into the hands of the wrong people who are out to make quick cash and makin everybody else pay for it
Pardon my french but, it's gettin FUCKIN OLD, MAN!!
I’ve opted out of AI training on all 3 of my blogs (my main art one, my personal blog and my abandoned toy one) But I gotta be honest folks. The way the system is working Tumblr is going to give the whole kit and kaboodle to Midjourney and then Midjourney will decide if they’ll be nice and exclude the ‘opted out’ stuff and doesn’t count towards when your stuff gets reblogged onto an account that *isn’t* opted out.
Tumblr has never been my main site for art in the 13+ years I’ve been on this hellsite. Most of my posts have zero notes, and my top one got, what, 40? I see no reason to keep using this site.
I’m still on Twitter (for now) and Bluesky with the same avatar. If you see my duck, it’s me.
It’s been real my precious little dumpster fire, but I can’t keep burning myself entirely for everyone else’s benefit with no benefit to myself.
See ya.
Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist).
As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.
(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)
FYI GUYS:
Tumblr has added this option to their settings: “prevent third party sharing”
Make sure to turn this on to prevent AI from scraping your blog (according to tumblr, anyway) 🩷
This version is clearer and easier to understand than the staff’s instructions
Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you.
AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.
Here are the important details:
If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.
"We discourage AI crawlers from gathering content unless they're paying us"
Also do you actually think we trust a blog settings toggle to protect us? On a website where the search function doesn't even work properly?
“Unless they’re paying us”
Opting out should be default, especially for the blogs belonging to dead and inactive users. This is disgusting. You should be ashamed.
Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you.
AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.
Here are the important details:
If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.