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I am currently living rather comfortably and will likely for at least the next couple of moths. And as the world enters an ever growing state of sickness, I want to start contributing something to it's betterment for the sake of soothing my increasing personal state of guilt and stagnation.

For as long as I will be financially able to, I will take art commissions which's intake I will donate to a charity organisation of your choice. To make it easier to decide which of the 300 active fires you want to help put out, I have collected four different charities for different causes for starters:

Ukraine 🇺🇦 Aktion Deutschland Hilft - Nothilfe Ukraine Palestine 🇵🇸 UNRWA Queer Community 🏳️‍🌈 The Trevor Project Climate and nature🌳 The Borneo Project

How it will work:

For the time being I will have to collect the money, transfer it to the according charity myself and send a proof screenshot to the client, since that is the easiest option for me. I do not have the skill or resources to install a system that will pass the money to another website permanently. Also I am selfish and not super rich even if I am not financially struggling rn and would like to keep myself the option of tip open ;_; ❗️I WILL KEEP THE TIP❗️ pls be aware of that. That does not include extra charges for complex commissions however.

This isn't optimal and you will just have to trust me on that and witchhunt my socials if I turn out to be a scammer or smth, but I will do my best to ensure transparency and inform you should any difficulties arise.

If you want to get a commission:

Please contact me via private message on THIS blog here or email: [email protected]

The actual commission setup and payment will be on my Ko-fi but please message me via the channels I stated, before you send any money. I will not take commissions that have not been discussed prior. If you send me money without having reached out to me first, you will receive it back, but you may be charged a processing fee by providers, that I will not be responsible for or able to refund.

When discussing the details of the commission, you can tell me what charity you would like me to send the money to and I will send you the screenshots of the transaction.

The Commission:

In general I will draw

OCs, fanart

humanoids, furries, certain anthros

romance/shipping, minimal blood/gore and/or violence

NSFW

Limitations and restrictions in my terms under section 2

Commission sheet with general tiers in € and USD

For details on my commission and more reference pictures check my Ko-fi and Artblog. Note that the traditional pieces on there vary in style but are not an option for commission.

This is the first time I'm doing something like this, if anything will not work and I end up screwing with people's money, I will set myself on fire.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

For all the reasons above AND ALSO because this particular lawsuit is a defamation case

Privacy lawsuits are hard because most privacy laws are super super weak, and there's very rarely a lot of money or enforcement backing privacy laws for...twenty million reasons, really...

But defamation suits? Those have teeth.

(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)

A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, a decision that could put a serious legal dent in the whole “the AI made me do it” defense. According to The Next Web, the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction after Google’s AI Overviews wrongly tied two Munich publishers to scams, subscription traps, and dubious business practices. The court treated those AI-generated summaries as Google’s own statements, not just ordinary search results pointing to third-party pages. That distinction matters. Search engines have traditionally had more protection because they index and link to other people’s content. AI Overviews changes the machinery. Google is not just showing the web anymore. It is summarizing it, rewriting it, and sometimes apparently hallucinating a tiny legal grenade into the results page... This is still a preliminary injunction, not a final ruling, and Google can appeal. But for publishers, brands, SEOs, and anyone watching AI search swallow the results page, the message is clear: if Google wants to be the answer engine, courts may start treating it like the publisher of those answers.

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

Mine was buried even deeper, under Devices -> Typing -> How AI has helped you.

Achievements:

Don't shoot! I'm friendly!: Prove you're not a bot

AI dismemberment: Disable algorithm settings

Friends?: Gained a mutual

I recognize you: Follow someone you know from r/Tumblr

MY EYES!: Change the site palette

Great Idea: Reblog a post

they are showing them as people

Last week i was looking into one of my teen's homework when I noticed she was writing words she "wasn't supposed to know" in english (like "furthermore", for example. They only know very intermediary english) I got a bit mad for a second. I wear an "anti-AI" button all the time, i even told them before why i was anti-AI, yet she didn't listen to me and thought she could get away with it... But i decided to keep it cool because i didn't know why she would do this, since she never did.

Okay, one week after, this Wednesday, it was time for their class again and, when she arrived, i told her to come to my desk and asked her: "what is furthermore?" She went pale when she noticed the paper in my hands. I asked again: "darling, what is furthermore?" Then, she shuttered: "I don't know, teacher. I'm sorry, I had to ask Gemini because I had no time..." then I sat her down, she was clearly upset (she is just 13) and I asked her what happened. "I didn't have any time left because of my exams and there were too many units to go through. So I asked my mom to help me and she told me to use ChatGPT but I asked google instead." Okay. So I looked into her eyes and told her it was okay, that she didn't need to be upset, but she would have to re-do that paper and bring it back to me by the next week. I told her she didn't need google or gpt to do her work, because she got a very high score at her english exam (both at school and at the course). She got right back on her feet and we started class as normal.