hello fellow comic art fans.
i am the goblin who runs this here blog. otherwise known as @jondoe297
i am extremely bummed that when i do come out and adress the followers of this blog directly it will be with this news. well. here goes:
Comic Art Showcase will indefinitely stop sharing our favorite artists' works until further notice due to the deal tumblr's owner is making with A.I. companies to sell data,enabling the theft of the works of the platform's users to scrape to train their A.I.
while for the over 5 years(!!) now that i have run this page and shared the love of comic art i am so passionate about,through ups and downs,i have kept this page strictly for doing so. not presenting any topics or ideas or even showing my own personality or linking my personal blog(even though i have been flirting with the idea recently. well i guess now is as good a time as any) i feel that if nothing else i have to use this specific platform i have,as it is,to address this topic as it is intrinsic and intertwined with this page's theme or activity. and i will not have it be an open buffet for these greedy corporations to scrape for data to feed the A.I. with which they seek to replace the very artists that i love and admire! even though it may be too late as we don't really know how long they've been doing this. well the inevitable came. and if this page is not deleted it will at least not be posted on for the time being. while we figure out what to do next.
in the meantime we can and have to all do what we can to fight for artists' and creatives' rights. if nothing else by not being a part of the theft and exploitation of them an their work. please do not use any generative A.I. programs for images or text. they work by scraping from databases of artists' and creatives' works without any permission,credit or compensation.
for now we can at least 'opt out' of having our content be shared with the A.I. companies in the settings.
keep in mind this seems to be only available on the web version and not on the app for now!
go to your blog settings from the corner here
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then go to 'blog settings'
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then go to visibility. and turn ON the 'prevent third-party sharing' option. make sure to turn it ON not off.
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and you have to do this for each blog and sideblog individually so make sure to do that!
and artists make sure to use Nightshade and Glaze to protect your artwork and images!!!!
the best combination is to use Nightshade first then Glaze on your images.
Glaze creates a protective layer on the image to prevent A.I. from copying it. while Nightshade poisons the A.I. sotfware.
stay safe friends an i will see you around❤
please do this even if you don't post art or images yourself. if you reblog other people's stuff the data can still be harvested.
go to your blog settings. then go to visibility. and turn ON the 'prevent third-party sharing' option. make sure to turn it ON not off.
do this for every blog and sideblog you have!!!
please stand with us in effort to protect artists' and creatives' works,an showing these corporations that we won't stand for thier theft and exploitation.
there is another!
introducing ArtShield. another program to protect your art and images from A.I. theft.
all information(including limitations) are on the site. check it out!
it also seems to be easier to run that Nightshade an Glaze/webGlaze. which seems to be their biggest problem. i was aware of that but i spread em around seein as it was what we had. or so i thought. now we have these three an none of them is 100% effective but it is what we have and it's better than nothing. hopefully we'll get even better tools and soon but in the meantime, let's keep on fighting.
