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An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

Nightshade your photo posts now.

Even if you don’t post your own art anymore, go back to your old stuff and watermark it.

Do it ASAP, before the deal goes through and the scraping begins.

This will not only protect your art, but has the opportunity to fuck over this deal on a pretty large scale. The more of these posts that are glazed or poisoned, the less valuable this deal becomes for tumblr and midjourney.

So one thing to look for in general is posts like this where there are MULTIPLE really cool similar things! I've noticed AI "artists" tend to do this a lot, showing off different results of the same or similar prompts they've used. If so many of these cool things exist, why have you never seen them before? Why is no information given of where any of these are from? That's your first giveaway to look for.

Going into details, let's start with this second image. First of all, look at the plants around the bottom—there's this weird almost rubbery texture that a lot of AI art tends to have, it's too smooth. Like how characters in video games never look quite photo-realistic—there's something just a bit plastic about them. If you look at enough AI art, you'll learn to recognize this characteristic at a glance.

Once you notice something like this, start looking at the details. The roof on this one is a good giveaway: Why are all those spires different without any rhyme or reason? And with the glass panels, why are some sticking out like that? Why are the shapes and colours of the panels so irregular?

Moving onto this one, you can see a lot of the same issues with the roof—glass panels sticking out in a way that doesn't quite make sense and weird random implements at the top. Where is there a water spout sticking up at the front like a chimney? And then you cast your eyes down and you notice—why is this building sitting on a rug?

Spend a while looking through all the images here and make yourself notice all the little things that don't make sense—the plants growing through glass, the lack of regular patterns, the lack of handles on the doors, etc. Pick a line and follow it, test if it makes sense. The next time you see pictures that look too good to be true, do the same. Take the time to train yourself to recognize these things so that you pick up on them automatically.

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All right, friends!

One of Jake's buddies is fundraising for top surgery - only 50 of these pins will ever exist. Let's see if we can sell Claude out today!

Every single dad packed into the car:

Your husband and all his coworkers:

Sundial.

Timepiece with the most moving parts:

and it’s hilarious when they pull pranks on each other, like attaching things to other people’s caps:

or the beloved hot foot prank:

or when they decided to put a guy’s pants over his head and make it seem like he was walking on his hands:

or when they opposing pitchers took turns playing tic tac toe every time they got on the mound:

Quarters only, please [x]