lambstooth

[lambstooth]

your art makes me think of don bluth's If he was allowed to go ham. keep it up, give us the beef

I've gotten that a few times, i never really know what to think. thanks all the same tho!

#asks

[lambstooth]

some favs from the last few months

#comms

[lambstooth]

Hello! I was wondering if you're currently taking commissions and where I might find a commission page with prices? Hope this finds you well and I love your Stabbington Brothers artwork :)

not currently, there will be a post with all your answers when i am. and thank you!

#asks

[lambstooth]

Girly you seem like an awesome person.

btw as a straight girl your art has helped me feel more comfortable in my skin <3

aw, i just try to not be The Absolute Worst

and that's awesome! i get that from all kinds of folks, we all deserve to feel comfortable the way we are

#unless you are The Absolute Worst #asks

[lambstooth]

Hello, I recently stumbled upon your Phantom of the Opera interpretation (?) and decided to do some fanart. I absolutely adore the way you brought about Erik in your style (given it is Erik) and just had to make a chibi of him. With that, keep up the good work and I hope to see more art from you in the future. Have a pleasant day/night ahead :DD

chubby little erik, IN MY INBOX?? dude.. i love this, i'm gonna look at it forever. AND THANKS potos always in my heart and frequently gives me a fever so i'm sure bearik will make another appearance

#asks #FOR ME #bust it down old man #thank you for including all his WRINKLES

[lambstooth]

im killing you! im killing you!

#srb #i didn’t get to do a bday piece this year so #AGAIN

[lambstooth]

one of these is more serious than the other

#husband tag #honey

[lambstooth]

Hi I just wanted to say your art is absolutely amazing. I’m so happy to see another lady out there who’s into the same stuff I am. I hope you’re having a fantastic day wherever you are

how dare you keep us apart then by being on anon!!.. but thank you, it will be much better once my back pops

#asks

[lambstooth]

i should just put that in my bio at this point

#YEAH THEY ALL LOOK LIKE SILVER I GET IT

[lambstooth]

welcome to my blog

i'm only 9 years late to fo4 and i still got swept off my feet by the non-romanceable option

[lambstooth]

Your posts are in an AI model

and then Tumblr decided to sell them to AI models.

Now, don't get me wrong, tumblr selling out the users to AI companies is bad, yes, they shouldn't do that. It sucks.

but don't lets get this confused: your posts were already in there. Tumblr selling them is about tumblr making some money and about the AI models having more exhaustive post collections. It's not about your posts being in an AI model, vs not being in one. That battle has already been lost.

Can you find your post on google? Then it's almost certainly in an AI model already. Think about it: These AI sites showed up before all the sites were making deals to sell their users' content, right? How do you think they built them in the first place?

They scraped the posts. Just like google and bing and such do when they build their search indexes.

It's a fundamental part of how the open web works: you want your posts on tumblr to be visible to users, right? You want them to be readable?* Like, look how much stuff broke when twitter changed their whole read-while-not-logged-in policy, ruining a bunch of thread links/NSFW links. And if it's visible, it's scrapable. That's what the AI models were built on.

I've done website scraping before (not for AI models, of course. I was doing search engines and website archival), this is just how it works. You hire a few relatively smart CS graduates and tell them "build me a scraper that'll give us a bunch of tumblr posts" and they go off for a month or two and come back with a database of a few billion posts, and you stuff that into your AI model. That's how they got all the deviantart and flickr and twitter and pinterest and so on posts. They didn't pay for them: they just took them.

They only ever pay for this shit because either:

they fucked up in such a way that the site might be able to sue them for taking rather than paying

They can buy them cheaper than they can finish taking them. Maybe they'd need to pay the CS grads for an extra month? well, that might be more expensive than just throwing the site a couple hundred thousand bucks.

ANYWAY: my point is, don't treat this "oh no tumblr is selling our posts to AI" like it's a big thing that might happen and it would be bad to happen. Yes, it's bad, tumblr shouldn't do this, this'll let AI models get continual updates of content for far easier than just scraping them would be, tumblr betrayed user trust, and so on...

but realistically, this is not a black and white matter of "if only tumblr didn't do this, then we'd be safe from AI models!"

Nope. We already lost that battle. I'm sorry, and it does suck, but that's just how it is. The avalanche has already started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote. * I'm assuming here that you don't run a private blog that's set to only followers or something. You'd be safer then, of course, but you're not really my target audience for this rant

[lambstooth]

seeing folks jump ship after that post and unfortunately (?) i'm too stubborn to leave

#hand in unlovable hand

[lambstooth]

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

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.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

#hm

[lambstooth]

Your art is so fucking gender

I’m a transguy and the way you draw men is literally my gender goals,,, thank you for drawing such big dudes

i love that for you, be sure to get your protein in!

#asks

[lambstooth]

I want to curl on your men's tummies under their shirts like a little kitten... Winter is so cold... 😮‍💨😮‍💨

we love a good belly around here

#i almost said warm belly and that seemed way more voreish #asks

[lambstooth]

i have the opposite of "i can't draw fat characters"

i'm only 9 years late to fo4 and i still got swept off my feet by the non-romanceable option

#and to the person that mentioned the romance mod #you can't even imagine how fast i ran to nexus when i realized it wasn't an option in the vanilla game

[lambstooth]

i'm only 9 years late to fo4 and i still got swept off my feet by the non-romanceable option

#fallout 4 #nick valentine