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My Pants Flew Off

@mypantsflewoff / mypantsflewoff.tumblr.com

Hi, I'm Katie!  I like sewing costumes....and assorted fandoms (usually involving brawny dudes). One or both of these things often makes my pants explode off. Chaos and keyboard smashing ensues. Oh, and sometimes I do science.....I have a PhD in marine geology and go to sea regularly to work on our group's subseafloor installations.
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khaleesi

Automattic will sign a contract with OpenAI for Midjourney to learn off of Tumblr and Wordpress

Hello! Automattic, Tumblr's parent company, will sign a contract with OpenAI and Midjourney so Midjourney can learn off of Tumblr's and WordPress' art and other user data. :) (The full text of this article is copy/pasted in the cut below). You can opt out! but I truly cannot imagine a more idiotic or out of touch decision on the part of Tumblr's CEO.

First thing's first: When/if this goes live, opt out of this immediately. Do this even if you're not an artist. The more people opt out, the less valuable this contract is to Midjourney. in an ideal world, literally all of the active users would opt out, but if we can even get to 50% that's pretty delicious.

Second: Contact Tumblr Support. It's vital that you do this politely. Tumblr staff is not responsible for this decision and the point of doing this is to show the userbase's unwillingness to be involved in this, not harangue Tumblr staff. (Seriously, stop haranguing Tumblr staff). Here's a script:

Hi, I'm writing in to express my disappointment in Automattic's pending contract with OpenAI to sell user data. Midjourney is already embroiled in copyright lawsuits, and it is not possible to train it without compromising copyright, including violating the IP of artists on this site. I strongly protest this contract and will opt out if it goes live. Depending on the privacy terms around what user data is sold to OpenAI and why, it is possible I will leave the platform entirely. Thank you for your time.

Third: Download Glaze and start poisoning them prompts, my friends

Fourth: Stare into the middle distance for a second with me because holy fucking shit? How stupid can one decision be?

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wheeloffortune-design

TUMBLR WANTS TO SELL YOUR DATA TO AN AI COMPANY

QUICK GUIDE HOW TO OPT OUT

(for the app)

1. Go to your page

2. Go to settings

3. Go to Visibility

4. Click on 'Prevent third party sharing'. It has to be blue.

Et voilà!

Share, so we can collectively tell tumblr we do not want them to collaborate with AI companies.

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rimouskis

literally why would FSG cut our award-winning tv program. like....... girl. you have sidney crosby on your team. evgeni malkin. kris letang. and now erik karlsson. and you get rid of your award-winning video series?

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professorfonz

HAVE Z AND ALPHA NOT BEEN MADE AWARE? HAVE WE FAILED AT CONTINUING TO MEME THE HELL OUT OF IT? ARE WE, IN FACT, THE GRANDMAS BECAUSE WE ARE THE ANCIENT KEEPERS OF THE INCEST COFFEE KNOWLEDGE???

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marzipanandminutiae

(If anybody is wondering “how could they write that and not anticipate the reaction?“ It’s because the sister was supposed to be much younger in the original draft. Like. An actual child. But they aged her up and never bothered changing the dialogue, so…)

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myfandomrealitea

“Why can’t the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone.”

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the ‘gross stuff’ you’ll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3’s specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is ‘allowed’ to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We’ve been there just as long as you. We’ve been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who’s fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3’s source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing ‘icky’ is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

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anneofgreengaybles

absolutely no one:

Madeline L’Engle, writing a wrinkle in time at some point in the early 1960s: what are kids into these days? comparative religious studies and theoretical physics, right? Yeah?

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