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April 14, 2024. Oulu, Finland. Nikon Z fc, Nikkor Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR. Stylistic processing.

Helluva lot of fog.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #nikon #nikon z fc #black and white #fog #tree #sun #gloomy #spring

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May 1, 2009. Oulu, Finland. Canon PowerShot A20.

One of the strengths of this city: loads of scenic pedestrian/bike roads.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #spring #biking

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March 11, 2024. Oulu, Finland. Nikon Z fc, Nikkor Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR.

The notorious "Paska Kaupunni" (Shitty City) graffiti appears on this wall frequently. This was the last month's iteration apparently.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #nikon #nikon z fc #paska kaupunni #graffiti

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May 6, 2022. Oulu, Finland. Nikon D780, Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #spring #bird #hooded crow

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May 1, 2023. Oulu, Finland. Nikon D780, AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #nikon #nikon d780 #fog #spring #may day

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May 5, 2022. Oulu, Finland. Nikon D780, Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG. Stylistic processing.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #nikon #nikon d780 #black and white #winter #spring #snow #bird

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April 26, 2023. Oulu, Finland. Nikon Z fc, Nikkor Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #nikon #nikon z fc #spring #melting snow #nature

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March 26, 2021. Oulu, Finland. Nikon D780, AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G. Stylistic processing.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #nikon #nikon d780 #winter #moon #moon photography

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April 3, 2024. Along Kajaani-Oulu railroad, Finland. Ricoh GR III, in-camera colour preset.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #finland #ricoh gr iii #clouds #winter #spring

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AI training statement

I don't usually do text posts on this blog, much less random rants.

Anyway, Tumblr recently decided to do a Business Move where they sold image data to AI training companies.

First, I was like "Ha ha ha ha HA! Tumblr really is a good source for that stuff." I mean, this blog of mine is deliberately an outlet of mediocre photography.

To be perfectly clear: This blog is my outlet for publishing photos that i've deemed neat. They're not necessarily my best work. Some may be excellent like that. Some may be good. Some may be not. Many indeed may be not.

So I was kind of torn about this. Should I keep opted in to this shit? Contribute to the eventual model collapse where people ask AIs to generate good pictures with tags "Nikon D780", "Stylistic", "black and white", and end up with random nonsense?

Another thing was that I actually believe in open sharing of my work, and I really don't mind people reblogging my stuff or even sharing my work elsewhere (with proper attribution/back links).

But I ended up disabling the third-party sharing.

Why? Well, primarily, because I didn't consent to that in the first place.

Also, second thing to consider:

I was actually reminded that this thing was a thing when I was watching Super Eyepatch Wolf's The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games. One Tumblr blog mentioned by the author had disappeared. Commenters said that that could have been due to Tumblr's AI policy change.

OK, so there are art blogs in Tumblr that take art much more seriously than I do, obviously. And they might not even be aware of this policy change.

Dammit.

So:

Granted, whatever AI company is foolish enough to download Tumblr data is going to get a whoooooole lot of incomprehensible nonsense shit, outright Content of Halfassery, and Weird Nerd Shit, and go "whoops! Didn't mean to add any of that!"

But they might catch an occasional bit of brilliance.

Without them knowing it.

Tumblr did a booboo. The usual way websites do this stuff is to recognise that users have the ultimate rights under copyright laws, and that the websites ask limited rights to do whatever they need to do to operate technically, and whatever exceptions there are are specified explicitly. Tumbrl's TOS already tried to cover their butt:

You also agree that this license includes the right for Tumblr to make all publicly-posted Content available to third parties selected by Tumblr, so that those third parties can syndicate and/or analyze such Content on other media and services.

An example of what it means to "make all publicly-posted Content available" to a Tumblr partner for distribution or analysis would be licensing the Tumblr "firehose," a live feed of all public activity on Tumblr, to partners like search engines.

...and despite that policy change, this thing was not added to the "examples". The examples are just about things that you expect Tumblr to do as part of third-party integration, like analytics and search engine stuff. Not stuff like, oh, agreeing to send all of the data to AI companies, and adding opt-out feature afterwards. Funny how that works!

Maybe it's high time Tumblr clarified this particular part of TOS. I'm not a lawyer, I'm a software developer nerd an an an amateur artist, I've learned a lot about intellectual property stuff as a consequence, but this stuff is still murky and Tumblr just straight up deciding to "donate" content to AI companies without users' explicit consent is straight up wrong.

#rant #tumbrl #terms of service #ai bros #tech bros #intellectual property

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June 30, 2016. Oulu, Finland. Nikon D3200, AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II.

Oulu railroad station.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #nikon #nikon d3200 #puddle #reflection #train station #trains

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August 7, 2023. Kuhmo, Finland. Nikon Z fc, Nikkor Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR. Stylistic processing.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #kuhmo #finland #nikon #nikon z fc #black and white #junkyard #car

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March 28, 2018. Oulu, Finland. Nikon D3200, AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #nikon #nikon d3200 #winter #snow

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February 18, 2024. Oulu, Finland. Nikon Z fc, Nikkor Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #nikon #nikon z fc #moon photography #moon

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Spring 2002. Kajaani, Finland. Wirgin Edixa Prismat, Porst Weitwinkel 1:3.5/35mm, IFI 200 film.

At Kajaani railroad station. VR's old VR Cargo cars and other freight cars, VR Class Dv12 locomotive.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #kajaani #finland #trains #film photography

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February 2, 2024. Oulu, Finland. Nikon D780, AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #nikon #nikon d780 #winter #golden hour #industrial zone

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March 5, 2016. Oulu, Finland. Nikon D3200, AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II.

#photo #my photos #photoblog #oulu #finland #nikon #nikon d3200 #winter #snow #snowfall #night photography #night