++A Beginning and an end told in three parts++

 aka: I’m fulfilling 10 year old me’s dream of wanting to draw this set of pictures because I thought this hidden cutscene was so damn cool and I’ve been holding off playing crisis core until I finished.

Been playing Crisis Core: Reunion and this pupper continues to be rad.

This piece gave me so much hell but I was determined to finish in spite of my perfectionist tendencies LOL

Barret Wallace studies because I love him, and there is not nearly enough fanart of him.

I will fix that for you, king. 😮‍💨💖💖

I just think they would make good friends

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unfortunately, a lot of the userbase won't opt out. those who don't see this post, those who have posted to tumblr but don't anymore, users on older versions of the app who forget to opt out next time they're on desktop, etc. the point of making it opt-out is to take advantage of people who wouldn't have opted in but don't/can't opt out in time. automatically opting out people who have discouraged search crawling is a gesture that helps Tumblr look more kind, but from the fact that everyone else has to manually opt out, Tumblr is definitely not looking benevolent.

I wonder, will Tumblr/Automattic be selling images from deactivated blogs? I assume deactivated blogs can't opt out. (if this is the case, it'll also give Tumblr even more reason to deactivate accounts unfairly.)

when will they start selling this data? Is it already too late to keep them from selling every image you've posted before you opted out?

and if they're especially malicious, I wonder if they could get away with saying "this image is from a blog that's opted out, but it was reblogged by a blog that hasn't opted out, so we're selling the image that's on that non-opted-out blog."

making users need to opt out to keep their images from being taken and sold is a shitty move that makes it clear Tumblr/Automattic don't respect our privacy, and @staff are really not giving us much info here to suggest otherwise.

how much fun are we having in this timeline folks?

Time to download and run all your works through Nightshade before posting them anywhere. Poison the data sets.

Reminder to artists, webglaze is also developed by the same ppl as nightshade, and it's very useful too!

GLAZE ALL YOUR ARTS BEFORE YOU POST THEM ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET

I think you should legally disclose if something is ai just like how you legally have to disclose if something is an ad

just wanted to share this with as much people as possible

paging @galebrainrot2024

You do not get to take someone else’s OCs for yourself just because you don’t like how their creator is treating them.

I’m absolutely adding this to my Online Entitlement collection. Raymond’s already on there.

this reminds me of the time that someone asked me to change my name because they had bad memories of someone named trixie

god what a wild day

I took the liberty of harvesting more examples from the notes. This genre of guy is an invasive species to fandom and freelance art spaces alike.

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Well, see you, friends

https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

Don't go after staff members because of this, for what I know they weren't even informed until later in the process. You know who this comes from.

this is a drastic betrayal of user trust

That's an understatement. It's treason, and they know it. The fact they haven't announced it, that even within the company this had been handled mostly in secret? Bad people doing bad things

🚨🚨TUMBLR WILL BE SELLING DATA FROM OUR BLOGS TO TRAIN AI!!! 🚨🚨

That means ARTISTS, WRITERS, ANY CREATIVES ON HERE! YES YOU TOO FANFICTION WRITERS!!! Tumblr is making a deal with Midjourney to sell your work to train their AI!!

Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

also use Nightshade and Glaze to protect your artwork and images!!!!

here's a link to Nightshade

here's a link to Glaze

best combination is usin Nightshade then Glaze on your images. Glaze creates a protective layer and Nightshade poisons the A.I. software.