#these REEK of AI

[oh-no-its-bird]

I feel like theres been more "wow your fic is sooo cool btw I do commissions and you should totally commission me heres my socials" comments left on fics lately, but maybe that's just in my head

[gojoest]

wth 💀💀💀💀 like ill ever click that link

[bri-does-art]

Will you be leaving Tumblr?

Most likely.

From the looks of it, our data has already been compiled and will be handed over tomorrow (I don't have details, the article is locked behind an account creation pop-up) so there's little that can be done for what's already been posted.

I have very little faith that asking those giants to take out our data is going to lead anywhere. There is no obligation in the contract for them to do so.

And even if I were to opt-out, (if that's even going to work at all, remember how well "opting-out" of Tumblr Live worked?) do I really want to keep giving my engagement to a website that feels free to do that kind of scummy shit behind the backs of their userbase? No warning, no talks, no transparency at all? This sits really wrong with me.

So, unfortunately, I most likely will leave Tumblr.

[humphreybogie]

M3gan was such a funny movie bc the main character is an awful, unsociable techie who wont buy toys for her niece and is literally like "Hey I know your parents just died but. Use a coaster :)" Like she litcherally invents a nanny robot so she doesn't have to deal with a childs grief- and she herself is more worried about making billions (illegally) harvesting data from kids than grieving her own dead SISTER???

And then they want you to root for her??? The lesson is litterally like "awww, isnt child abuse an inherent human flaw? Isnt it better to be abused by your piece of shit aunt than raised by a robot?"

Like, I'm sorry, no????? M3gan was kinda right low-key and Gemma should be in prison

[cyatzura]

i usually have no problems to just unfollow people but i always thought if i started to unfollow people because of annoying ai posts then i would have to unfollow like 70% of my dash but now that i decided to remake i feel like i can finally say how annoying people on here about ai omg

[wntw-virtuemoir-edition]

I know everyone is tired of ring repetitions but why at the most potent moment of the wedding the exchange of vows and most notably the exchange of rings Mo turns up without a wedding ring. Since the whole thing reeks of fraud one is necessarily chasing the cause and a more accurate scenario Since you believe that Yoganumber who was so off kilter during the whole time at that time you have bring forth better evidence for your case. Good luck We will laugh

which part of your eyes does not see a ring in these pix?

tw: sorry for the mo discomfort if u do not subscribe:

[anggeese]

I'm sure these chatgpt fanfiction motherfuckers are the same ones who demand authors to update their fics as if they're paying them hourly

[theliterarywolf]

"Black Mirror finally returns this June!"

Me, after having suffered the bullshit of diminishing returns as emphasized in 'USS Callister', 'Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too', and ESPECIALLY the hot garbage that was 'Striking Vipers':

[postapocalypticparenting]

The horse is out of the barn, I suspect. But opt out anyway.

its official: tumblr is selling our data to Midjourney

we'd been hearing rumors about this for a bit but now its open and out there. some details from this article

it goes without saying, but if @staff goes through with this its going to be an utter shitshow and im all but certain the website will not survive it.

[livealive-polls]

I don't know what I'm looking at.

[firethieff]

do i have any tumblr mutuals who are on bluesky? i recently made an acc there @ firethieff

[saltyyetbland]

my social media literacy and analysis brain cannot handle all the performativity i see online sometimes

[dysfunctionalnerd]

see i just have this sneaking suspicion the new owl city covers are made with generative ai

[landgraabbed]

these look like the same application of image based search tech (normal), which is not the same thing as generative ai (built on stolen assets for training and has a very negative environmental impact). now i wouldn’t put it past ea to dabble in generative ai, but so far this doesn’t look like it.

i wish the community didn’t jump to conclusions and stopped fearmongering

[binghe-malewife-goals]

Biggest dingus of the year

[carriesthewind]

I reread the IA's contemporaneous post justifying their "National Emergency Library", and one of the things that struck me is just how selfish it was.

(It was also full of falsehoods, ranging from exaggeration to outright lies, but that's another matter.)

While 2020 feels like it was several decades in the past, it was actually only a few years ago. And I remember March of 2020! I was there! And oh my god, is this post right in line with every other selfish, demanding asshole determined to make a global pandemic all about themselves!

First of all, there is the language of the post - it is a "tremendous and historic outage" that books are unavailable to patrons because libraries are closed for the pandemic. "Right now, today, there are 650 million books that tax-paying citizens have paid to access that are sitting on shelves in closed libraries, inaccessible to them."

Missing from this outrage is a recognition that, like. Librarians are people. They get sick, and die.

They did get sick, and died.

Libraries were closed not only to protect patrons and the public, but librarians too. Libraries were closed to protect people, human beings. Because generally speaking, even the most enthusiastic supporters of access to books and knowledge, prioritize lives over books.

The AI's post, however, reeks of an entitlement to things that *my* tax dollars paid for. Libraries and library collections aren't a public good. They're something *I* should be able to access anytime I want, damn the context or the consequences.

(Was it also a historic outrage when I had to wait several months to check out Nona the Ninth, because so many other people were checking it out?)

Second, as I said, I remember early 2020. And in spring and summer of 2020, there was more free content on the internet than before or since. So many people and so many institutions were bending over backwards to provide people with books and tv shows and music and podcasts and virtual tours and collections and just about anything that someone could figure out how to digitize. So many people were giving away books for free, or writing/recording new content to give away for free. I can't even remember how many times I heard or read someone telling their readers or listeners just to pay what they could, if they could. So many people and institutions were giving away so much, do so much, to provide access to knowledge and books and entertainment and information.

And in that moment, the IA decided to steal from people. When so many people, so many authors, were acting so selflessly, they decided that it wasn't good enough. And instead of giving away themselves, they decided to steal from authors and pat themselves on the back for "meet[ing] this unprecedented need," when they didn't even actually do anything themselves. Or maybe more accurately, the only thing they did was something irrelevant to the actual needs of the community, something they wanted to do anyway, something to try to use a pandemic as an excuse to advance their agenda.

Because third, there is zero concern for the population of patrons actually most impacted by the closure. The IA cares, to a fault, only about information being digitized.* But many people who use physical libraries, many of the people most impacted by their closure, are people who do not have access to the AI's so-called "open library." And people who could access digital books generally continued to have access to their library's e-book services, and to tons of other free content. The patrons who were actually in the most need are ignored as irrelevant.

*And I want to be clear - they care that information is digitized, not about digital access. "Access" means more than information being digitized and theoretically being able to be read.

It's so clear that IA didn't really care about the patrons of physical libraries. Instead, they saw a real problem, and instead of working toward any solutions, decided to use it as a prop to push their own agenda. (Again, while people were dying.)

It's just all so deeply selfish.