#Google Drive and

[artsietango]

This Google Drive AI scraping bullshit actually makes me want to cry. My entire life is packed into Google Drive. All of my writing over the years, all of my academic documents, everything.

I’m just so overwhelmed with all the shit I’m going to have to move. I’m lucky to have Scrivener, but online data storage has been super important as I’ve had so many shitty computers, and the only reason I haven’t lost work is because Google Drive has been my backup storage unit.

My partner has recommended gitlab to move my files to - it seems useful, and I can try and explain more about what it is and how it works when I get more familiar with it. I’m unsure if it’s a text editor, or can work that way. He was explaining something about the version history that I don’t quite understand right now but might later. I’m just super overwhelmed and frustrated that this is the dystopia we live in right now.

#google drive #ai scraping #vent post #okay to reblog #just really feeling the impact of this one guys

[sequencefairy]

Source @ X

ID: tweets from @boulevarddouble:

okay SO. Just FYI i have an insider contact and i asked him about this new google drive nsfw scare.

backing up is never a bad idea.

99% of people will be unaffected, and this is NOT a crackdown on having nsfw content on gdrive

"What I think has happened is that drive has made several updates to its spam/abuse filtering and one of the focuses is trying to catch spammers who share explicit things in docs with random emails. Which is good in theory, but has the potential to hit false positives."

his recommendation is to keep NSFW words out of your doc titles and instead of sharing the "open link", share directly with you beta's email addresses.

It is also more likely to flag up explicit images, though that is less likely to be a fic problem.

/end ID

#things jess says #google docs #google drive #update on the panic and hysteria of the last two days #as always #regular back ups are to be recommended but it doesn't appear to me that we need to panic at all

[gracefuldisasters]

Reupload from a year ago ~

Still my favorite Sonic game. And I need to draw more in the style of the first slide, I forgot how much I liked it

Sequel

#sth #sonic the hedgehog #the murder of sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #vector the crocodile #espio the chameleon #tails the fox #team chaotix #not sure if i have these files on a hard drive somewhere... but I ended up pulling them from my insta and google images #my stuff #sonic

[picory]

honestly adding a paper background to your digital canvas is a game changer and i suggest you do it if you want to feel like you're actually drawing on paper with real pencils, or at least an approximation of it. i could share some if anyone's interested

#quacks #see reblogs for the google drive link 👍

[hope-ur-ok]

just found out the Rep Tour movie is being removed from netflix :(

#if anyone needs a download link let me know #i have it saved multiple places and I have the original google drive link I got it from #the turtle speaks

[theoldkyokodied]

[Hi Dennis. How was the lion feeding?...?]

This has been something I've been working on for quite a while now, as some people who look at my insta story might know, but I'm finally done!! those text messages from s14ep5 are so unhinged, they haunt me every goddamn day. To drop "i love you so much" just to follow it with what essentially is a "no homo.. for u... even tho u r so hot and i like you so much!". exploading them with my mind into a million pieces, okay?

#macdennis #macden #iasip #it's always sunny in philadelphia #dennis reynolds #mac mcdonald #charlie and dee are also there but like for one frame. not tagging them for that #btw i hope mac sexts like he texts. with ellipses and all. and we KNOW dennis would know about that too. i am giving them my best blankstar #i started drawing this before the zine i think. i worked on this so long and had to go back and fix things bc of course i chose the hardest #angles to draw <333 #i am normal about this show and have definitely not started a whole art class project oil painting based on it (sweating) #you can find these on the google drive folder btw. debating if i should add the painting without the text as well #*blank stare. reached character limit on the last two letters 🙄

[van-ecks]

@ writers, just out of curiosity.... when you write multichapter fics, do you have each chapter in a separate doc or have everything on one big doc?

#holly.txt #currently working on smth and i have a folder on my google drive with one doc per chapter in it #and i'm just like ???? would having one big doc with all the chapters in it be more effecient or smth??? idk #efficient*

[sleepanonymous]

Legend has it if you listen to this soundcheck on repeat it will clear your skin, water your crops, and cure your depression. I hope this heals all of you like it has healed me.

#sleep token #vessel sleep token #vessel #song take me to church #take me to church #hozier #hozier cover #hozier take me to church #okay the caption is cheeky but this is pretty amazing #i wish the audio was better/longer but this was recorded outside a venue on a cellphone #the mp4 is in my google drive #in the rituals folder #it's literally a 30 second video of a wood door #but you can see the videographer get excited and thats kinda cute #because i'd be the same way fam #i wish i knew who actually recorded this so i could give proper credit #but its one of those things that's been passed around like crazy on the down-low #i know the person who *claims* to have recorded it is from ny or nj #so this might be from september 10th this past na rituals tour #i couldn't find this door on google maps #but i also couldn't get around to the back of the building to be 100% certain #i also tried checking union transfer the palladium and rams head live! but had no luck there either #if anyone has any more info on this soundcheck or the unedited video #(you can see and sort of hear it jump at the first “i'll tell you my sins”) #please please please tell me

[crazy-god-bunker-jughead]

I FORGOT I MADE THIS

So anyway enjoy I guess.

And here's the link to the slides in case this is blurry

Edit: I realized I mixed up the names for Robert Golding and George Chambers.

#like legit made this for fun and it's been sitting there for like a month #then i opened my google drive today and remembered it #the terror

[you-idle-boy]

They may tell you that they deleted Advanced Dungeons and Dragons because of Chang's blackface, but don't listen to their lies. It's really about Abed-saying-Troy-has-a-big-dick erasure.

#i will never not be pissed about this episode being deleted from streaming its so good #if yall want to google drive link to it lmk i dont want it to die #community #nbc community #community nbc #six seasons and a movie #abed nadir #troy barnes #advanced dungeons and dragons #trobed

[bitwein]

Our love spins a gun around its finger

Our love has found its way into our mouths before

Cut our teeth until we swallow it whole

Reuploading some more of my older art so I can keep track of it better,

#trigun #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #wein art #wolfwood #trimax #trigun fanart #vashwood #more old art #more ballroom theives song lyrics that worked its way into my brain and strangled me to the point of drawing #it’s very hard to access a google drive all the time everytime I wanna show someone my work so I’ve resigned to just uploading these again

[patcaps]

GHOSTS SERIES 5 | GOOGLE DRIVE

All 6 episodes are now on my Google Drive in HD 👻

If playback/download limit is exceeded, you either need to make a copy to your own Drive and watch it that way, or wait 24 hours to view it on mine

The 2023 Christmas special will also be added on release, and I’ll also add the new series of the Inside Ghosts podcast

Reblog my main masterpost HERE (link also in my pinned post)

Enjoy.

#bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts drive #ghosts google drive #the latter episodes are still processing #but fill your boots #mine #quill to paper

[amalgamasreal]

SOURCE

Bit of a long video but worth a watch.

TL;DW though is that hidden in the Terms and Conditions for Google's AI Labs is a nice little poison pill that says they get access to your entire Google Drive if you opt in.

So if you're an author of some type and you keep your unpublished works in your G-Drive that means an AI will get to scrape all of it and by opting in you will have given them permission to it. The content creator goes on to predict that Google is going to let out their own streaming service where the scripts, and potentially the art if it's animated, will be almost or entirely AI generated using that scraped data as a baseline and the authors/artist's who's work was essentially stolen in its most raw form to crib from will have zero way of fighting Google on that in our current legal system.

This is of course right in the middle of the writers and actors strike where we're seeing just what lengths studios will go to in order to screw everyone but themselves.

They go on to recommend that if you keep any creative or personal works on Google Drive that you pull it off as soon as possible and delete your entire Drive. They acknowledge that of course this doesn't mean Google really deleted the data but if you do it before they start compulsory opting everyone in there's a chance your work might get overlooked. They also recommend several free editing programs that aren't run by corporations like Google with LibreOffice (the default office program of most Linux distros) being named.

Finally they go over methods of shaming Google which I feel like you just have to watch for comedies sake so I won't describe them in full.

Now this is from me: I know the majority of people don't have the ability to build and manage a big archive just for themselves, but if you're a creative NOW IS THE TIME to educate yourself on what you can do to protect your works. Cloud storage was always iffy at best, but with AI scraping entering the mix it's now downright malignant. Get a bunch of thumb drives, buy some external hard drives, if you have the money buy a pre-built NAS, and if you really want to get into learn how to build your own NAS. These are the old ways before cloud and they're coming back again, more important than ever.

#google #google docs #google drive #ai scraping #ai theft #ai generated theft #wga strike #wga solidarity #sag aftra #sag strike #libreoffice #google is cringe #delete your Google docs #embrace local back-ups

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The “3,000,000 truck drivers” who were supposedly at risk from self-driving tech are a mirage. The US Standard Occupational Survey conflates “truck drivers” with “driver/sales workers.” “Trucker” also includes delivery drivers and anyone else operating a heavy-goods vehicle.

The truckers who were supposedly at risk from self-driving cars were long-haul freight drivers, a minuscule minority among truck drivers. The theory was that we could replace 16-wheelers with autonomous vehicles who traveled the interstates in their own dedicated, walled-off lanes, communicating vehicle to vehicle to maintain following distance. The technical term for this arrangement is “a shitty train.”

What’s more, long-haul drivers do a bunch of tasks that self-driving systems couldn’t replace: “checking vehicles, following safety procedures, inspecting loads, maintaining logs, and securing cargo.”

But again, even if you could replace all the long-haul truckers with robots, it wouldn’t justify the sky-high valuations that self-driving car companies attained during the bubble. Long-haul truckers are among the most exploited, lowest paid workers in America. Transferring their wages to their bosses would only attain a modest increase in profits, even as it immiserated some of America’s worst-treated workers.

But the twin lies of self-driving truck — that these were on the horizon, and that they would replace 3,000,000 workers — were lucrative lies. They were the story that drove billions in investment and sky-high valuations for any company with “self-driving” in its name.

For the founders and investors who cashed out before the bubble popped, the fact that none of this was true wasn’t important. For them, the goal of successful self-driving cars was secondary. The primary objective was to convince so many people that self-driving cars were inevitable that anyone involved in the process could become a centimillionaire or even a billionaire.

- Google's AI Hype Circle: We have to do Bard because everyone else is doing AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard.

#ai #ai hype #large language models #confident liars #bard #google #enshittification #llms #chatbots #truckers #self-driving cars #selfdriving trucks

[dickfuckk]

OFMD resources

*if you’re seeing this post through a reblog then go to the original post for the most up-to-date links

Panels

Season 1 with English captions: (split up cause I'm not paying for extra storage lmao)

Episode 1-4

Episode 5-8

Episode 9+10

More season 1 stuff:

Google drive for season 1 with German dubs shared by @rainbowbonnet [tumblr post]

Season 2

@tzikeh has a Google drive link + more resources

adaisgay_ has uploaded the 2nd season! (Direct Google drive link in case the tweet doesn’t work)

@smol-ish-rose has a Google drive link

@lozzzzaaaaaa has a Google drive link - ep 5-8

You can also watch season 2 here

Season 2 with English captions These are temporary and better quality versions will be added soon. The quality is fine, but it's a screen recording so the audio could be better Episode 1 & 2 have been updated.

Episode 1-5

Episode 6-8

Season 2 subtitle files (.ttml) You can add these as embbeded captions to your own videos

Episode 1-2

Behind the scenes stuff

@ourflagmeansbts - my bts blog posting daily bts

BTS Google drive

BTS Video

Other stuff

Newark, Newark season 1 episode 1-3

my yt channel where you can find instagram lives and bts videos etc.

#oh and lmk if any of the links break or whatever #ofmd #our flag means death #i updated my google drive and it's no longer categorized #for categorized bts go to ourflagmeansbts lmao

[yourslimeybuddy]

did redesigns, gave Bedbug a friend, and now they have a whole story that I'm writing out (currently on hold cuz im a master of procrastination)

heres more doodles i did of them cause theyve been rotting ym brain

#oc tag bedbug #oc tag aurora #my art #artists on tumblr #fnaf oc #fnaf sb oc #dca oc #five nights at freddys oc #fnaf #if you see a discord link on any of the images no you dont #i save all my drawings on discord LMAO #i need to move them to my google drive #but im lazy and dotn wanna #described #image description in alt