CUMPLOSION

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.

To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 

For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

Opt OUT is a fucking cop-out and you know it. You're betting on allll the defunct blogs chock full of art, on all the occasional users who will likely miss this announcement, who's art will be offloaded into the AI hoppers and harvested against their wishes. You're making money off of their "ignorance". Fucking EW.

We know you're hemorrhaging money, and we know that you're exploring avenues to fix that, but you're literally taking advantage of your users and harming their incomes in order to sustain yours. How on earth is that not eating at your hearts? Do you even have hearts to eat away? Yes this is dramatic, but holy shit y'all, this is an overwhelmingly tone deaf business move.

I love this platform more than any other on the web, and yes it's increasingly less and less likely that it will live beyond a couple of years, but you're shitting on one of your own core tenants and your own userbase by partnering with AI scrapers, and that is unacceptable.

Not to mention this whole AI thing being announced on the heels of the other Staff debacle it's a wonder you have any users left at this point. Do you even LIKE your userbase?!

You're going to lose them in even faster droves now, because while the Tumblr Live thing was highly optional, and didn't really affect users, AI scraping DIRECTLY HARMS their livelyhood. And even if they're not selling their art, AI is still an insult to actual artists and devalues their skills.

Instagram poets could never!

I understand her reaction to me coming out now. I understand that in her eyes it put me way more at risk, being Native American and queer. My father tries, but he’s white and, as far as he’s concerned, I’m pale enough that people don’t immediately jump to the conclusion that I’m poc.

But Nex was paler than me. And if it could happen to them, none of us are safe. A fact I understood but still hits me like a truck when it’s proven right time and again. This is why I keep telling people that mixed race people are just as at risk, no matter how much we may “pass”. We’re still not white. We’ll never be white.

And yes, I know it’s not just about race. I know it’s also because of their LGBT+ identity. But please listen, this is important:

Nex was a two-spirit Choctaw CHILD. Their native identity is just as important as their lgbt+ one.

Please talk about this. I’m not part of Nex’s tribe, being Cherokee, the second largest tribe in the United States. And even we are only a population of little over 200,000. The Choctaw are even smaller, with just a little over 80,000.

Do you understand? We’re dying. Please stop erasing our identities when you talk about us.

Mahou Shoujo Yurina’s main heroine by okyankyan03

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