#third-party sharing

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.

From instructions on how to opt out, look at the official staff post on the topic. It also gives more information on Tumblr's new policies. If you are opting out, remember to opt out each separate blog individually.

Tumblr is going to be selling data to train AIs. If you don't want your posts used for that purpose, follow these steps:

1, Go into your blog settings. This is separate from your main settings, you have to go through an individual blog.

2, Scroll down to the "Visibility" section. This is near the bottom of your blog settings.

3, Find the toggle that says "Prevent third-party sharing for *blog name*" and turn it on.

Hello, tumblr users! Yesterday I saw this post on Twitter and I completely agree with the op. We've done this song and dance before.

If we all were to, hypothetically, create opt-in blogs, we have an opportunity to do something VERY FUNNY.

If we were, let's say, post large quantities of definitelly NOT Nightshaded images. I've heard that feeding AI generated images back into the machine does absolutely no harm to the AI. ;)

Or we could all become hyperfixated on posting Disney art and scripts, I'm sure the big mouse's legal team will love to have genAI be trained on their IPs.

As for language models, I'm not so knowledgeable, but we could start making posts that absolutely make complete sense, do not spread blatant misinformation and are not plain gibberish.

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on web: Blog Settings, scroll down to Visibility, then turn on this guy: