#about AI scraping

[londonfoginacup]

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[thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra]

me watching like a quarter of tumblr freak tf out bc their AI site is down (i can imagine my blorbos in my head with no restrictions)

[agentc0rn]

The man and his flower

[thatgirlonstage]

The thing about tumblr is that there’s a panic about how the site is dying and falling apart literally every other week so eventually if you’ve been here long enough you just get zen about it. Like if anything specific is your breaking point do whatever you want but personally they’re gonna have to pry me out of the vents like a feral raccoon before I leave. Anyway if you’re new here and you see people talk about how something is the end of tumblr and you’re afraid they’re correct I just want you to know I’ve been here through probably like 300 ends of tumblr. I’m not saying it will never happen for real but statistically I remain skeptical.

[sennamaticart]

Zoltan is one wiggly wizard!

[gawki]

Ai art fuck off

[luxury-nightmare]

The End comes for us all

And behold, Annabelle! The final velidgun for the previous generation and Jack’s predecessor! And oh boy, Jack has some big shoes to fill. She become so infamous around the country that some people believed her to be Azrael, the angel of death in the Bible.

A couple quick facts. She is a selective mute. She can talk, but she doesn’t want to. Both her and her partner, Oliver, are ambush or stalker hunters, where they follow their prey for extended periods of time before attacking.

Honestly, between what I’ve written for her and her design, she works better as Alex’s predecessor than Jack’s, but I don’t feel like redesigning her so here we are.

(Also if I had a nickel for every time I made a velidgun oc with a veil based on nightvale fanart (her design was based on old women Josie’s angels) I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice)

[acorviart]

more ceramics in progress, gonna try single color celadon glazes on these and hope the details aren't covered up

[north-noire]

Hello everyone, just a little update while I complete my ArtFight entries + write my fic drafts, since I know there's still people trying to read my fic or still haven't read my fic.

I set my Hidden Hands AU fic to view-only to registered users for now because there's apparently a bot scraping fics off the site (rivd dot net - thankfully and miraculously I'm not on there, but plenty of fic authors are) and I wanna make sure it never happens to my fics at all, or to anyone else who's also an AO3 author themselves.

For AO3 writers, please check this twitter thread when you can, and hope you don't find yourself in it, because it requires you to give out your REAL NAME and real life information and that's NOT GOOD. Please don't give out your information to these people/the site.

Here's what to do if you find your works/username the site instead: thread of what to do

It's disappointing to hear that these kinds of people think they can just scrape off works out of complete passion or works made for fun by authors, where we're never paid or compensated for any of it, but they think they can just steal and feed it into some stupid A/I slop because they think they could just steal our hard work and make some profit off of it, and treating it like no big deal all "in the name of the future".

It's horrible, and I hope there's going to be laws and restrictions around not just this practice in general, but to all kinds of protection around artists' works as a whole. We artists and creatives really don't deserve to be treated like this.

[onemillionfurries]

hey anyone else remember when you could just go on a website and see what was on it. remember when you didn't need an account for every little thing. remember when information was freely available to all? that was fun.

[whatlurksbean]

Didnt Instagram/facebook change their policies so by having an account you automatically agree to have your content train their AI with no way to turn it off? Good enough reason to not post there at all if you ask me

i think unfortunately just about all websites are doing this no matter what they say.

[starbase-yorktown]

Well, it is here—my first ever big bang! I’ve kept VERY mum on this throughout the whole process, but I am super proud (and dreadfully nervous) to present to y’all:

nothing grows in corpses (in the earth of me)

Just over 100k words in a universe where the show ends the same way as the comics do until Death decides it doesn’t. Things…fall apart in a spectacularly ghastly fashion.

Ft. angst, whump, hurt/comfort, the VERY long road that is physical & psychological recovery, and by and large Hob being a life-loving bastard and Morpheus being a grave-obsessed bitch. Please heed the full tags list. Got nearly every category of Dead Dove: Don’t Eat in there.

But it’s not all heavy! Have some spectacularly captured comedy from my amazing artist @shrugsinchinese ! You were such a joy to work with, and I am so glad you were the first person who shared in the complete story. 😊

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[spitblaze]

If you guys could talk about the existence of generative software and nerual nets without suggesting artists nuke their portfolios off of the Internet for their own safety (the datasets have Already Been Scraped btw so that won't even help) that would be very nice. Thanks

[gumbo]

A few weeks ago i wanted to get a soj keychain or button for my backpack but i barely saw anything for her on etsy :-( jq only had slightly more than her…

embolden by my anger i decided to make my own keychains/charm concepts ^_^ i think they turned out preddy good even tho i barely draw chibis

also drew this sketch for fun but i would be too embarrassed to put this on anything but still wanted to share anyways ^q^

[danidrawsstuff]

so i went to grad yesterday

rambling in the tags

[sharada-n]

As a disabled person, I'm so disgusted by what happened on the @whumptober blog recently and how they're trying to sweep it under the rug.

Discussions about AI aside, deleting replies from disabled people speaking out against the rampant ableism you're spreading and that is happening in your comments/reblogs, is so fucking gross and I can't believe they did that. Like, I used to love the whump community but now it just feels incredibly unsafe.

The whump community has always been accused of being ableist and I hate that now I can't even argue against it because some of the biggest names in this community apparently are really fucking chill with silencing disabled people for speaking out against that behavior.

These mods and anybody who is supporting that behavior can go fuck themselves <3