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you know, as i finish fallout tv and gets feelings for yet another ghoul, i reflect on the things i always fall in love with and love to draw:

skulls, skeletons

ghouls

undeads in general

and realizes that none of these have noses. is that the secret? am i a nose hater?

#i mean apart from you know. the death theme #spader talks

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Love all your stuff (gnawson your oc artwork) especially ur terror au. Went scrolling back through it, saw that ask about Crozier and JFJ being old guard metal artists and now I'm stuck thinking

Crozier and JFJ go to a gig where The Mutineers are opening

Hickey spots Crozier and interprets this as an act of destiny

Hickey corners Crozier while he's out smoking and starts rambling about fate and purpose and shit while Crozier's thoughts alternate between "Someone get this guy a fucking rabies shot" and "Where the fuck are you James I want to go home"

Thank you, i'm happy that the au keeps making rounds! i sometimes miss all that, it was so fun to bury myself in all of it

#asks

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Very excited to announced that Palimpsest: A Pentiment Zine is now available for download on itch.io!

This zine has been a labor of love, and features 60+ pages of art and writing put together by 40 contributors and moderators. The zine is pay-what-you want, and all proceeds will be going to Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.

#it's out!! #get it now :D #pentiment

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We are extremely excited to announce that Palimpsest: A Pentiment Fanzine will be available starting March 31st on itch.io. The zine will be pay-what-you-want, with all proceeds going to Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.

Putting this zine together has been an absolute delight, and we can't wait for you to see the pieces everyone has contributed.

#i'm in this!

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in extremely pro gamer moves i beat honour mode on my first try!!

#spader talks #this was so fun #i was sweating a lot but i loved getting into min-maxing #definitely over prepared for a lot of fights but it saved me once too

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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

#Glaze and nightshade your pics if you can to poison the data sets #And lets not forget several lawsuits are in play #Regulation is slow but its on the tablet #Also a lawsuit in China just made Great headlines #Dont despair keep fighting #Im teyping this as my cat is #on my face

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ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

#poison everything

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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.

#disgusting

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PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. but you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

#how the fuck is that gonna be enforced

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Im on bluesky now too 👀 find me there?

#Spader talks #Bluesky

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erik watain

#watain #erik danielsson #a quick portrait as a break between working on my big zine piece #i've been so stressed lately i haven't had time to draw in my free time at all #anyways they are my comfort band atm :')

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meet joy, my 19 year old abyssal tiefling wild magic sorcerer, out to steal any coin and treasure he and his crew can get his hands on!

raised by the streets of baldur's gate, he lacks any memory from age 6 to 14, something he's insecure and angry about. the other street urchins nicknamed him Joy as a joke, because "his 'pleasing looks' and 'cheerful mood' are always such a 'joy' to behold".

#level 1 baby #tiefling #dnd #dnd 5e character #abyssal tiefling #original #i guess #he's my Very Special Boy #is he angry or is he scared hmm hmm

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if there's more fans of atmospheric BM and the franklin expedition and/or the terror (2018) i would like to say that there's an album out here made just for us

#and it's so good?! #spader talks

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Asad at the café!

#original #my ocs #asad and nasir #asad #he's back baby #i missed drawing him

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speaking of darktide, as someone who loves history and cares about accuracy, when i designed these i always thought it was so funny to put hats from three different centuries in the same theme. just go absolutely bonkers with all that. i know it doesn't matter but i had a laugh with it heh

#spader talks

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Im so normal about this :)

#I made the bolter skin #Spader talks

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i log into twitter now and then to see what's up and after every time i have to decompress for like an hour, it truly is a pit of doom and despair in there nowadays

#i am still sad about it #why is everything sooooo