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.

@staff, given the 404 media post, this PR announcement you had prepared for tomorrow is very clearly out of date, and I would just remove the post and write something else.

In the post, you talk about AI crawlers like if it was something you are defending your users against. A external actor that may get to tumblr public posts and use them for nefarious purposes.

What you don't talk about is about AUTOMATTIC SELLING THAT DATA TO THE COMPANIES THAT USE THOSE CRAWLERS, SO THEY DON'T EVEN NEED TO SCRAPE THE PUBLIC TUMBLR BLOGS.

Why are you even talking about crawlers when it has just been published that you are actively and proactively sending the data straight to their servers?

This is no sense. At the very least, delete this post and write something addressing the real issue.

one of the chocolate guys videos appears on your dash. you pause your scrolling to watch it, trying to guess what he’s making because this doesn’t seem to be one you’ve seen before. as the video goes on you get more unnerved and impressed — he seems to be making a whole human being this time, and it’s uncannily realistic. it’s even filled with candied fruit and sweet pastries in place of organs, red velvet cake and a cherry reduction making up flesh and blood beneath the chocolate. but something feels off. the person he’s making seems strangely familiar. upon the final reveal, you know why. amaury guichon has created a perfect replica of you

one of the best tips for Real Life that I’ve ever picked up is to always highball your estimate whenever someone asks you “when can you get this done by” by about 25% (if you can get away with it). that way, if it ends up being harder than you thought, you’ve got extra time to figure things out and if you were right about how much time it takes then you get to look like an absolute genius instead of just a simply competent person.

what you may not have realized is that I learned this crucial piece of life advice from an episode of Star Trek where Scotty is telling Geordi that whenever he told Kirk something on the Enterprise was at full capacity, it was always only ever a notch or so below full capacity so that Scotty looked like the god of all engineers when he was able to magically hack the warp drive to run a little beyond what he’d told everyone else was “full capacity” and honestly that one throwaway gag from Star Trek has changed my life.

star trek heritage post (June 9th, 2017)

one hyperfixated tumblr mutual has the power of six hundred thousand ad campaigns

@demilypyro

“Thirsty ratsnake” sounds like a roast but it can also be a guy

genuinely inconsolable I can't have one of these pompeii bread plushies fr.

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Blorbo from my mosaics.....

[Image ID: rukafais's reblog adds a photograph of a plush toy black dog, with a red collar, a red tongue sticking out and distinctively shaped whites of its eyes, and below it a photo of the mosaic its based on (of a dog with the qualities previously described). modmad's reblog adds tags reading 'we remember your dog still, we remember your bread, bursts into tears immediately'. / End ID]

Tumblr Top Ships Bracket - Round 2 Side 1

This poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

SULEMIO GET UPPP you've overcome so much bullshit both in the story and outside of it as the main same sex couple in a japanese legacy franchise fight back!!!

"can you explain this gap in your resume" Oh yeah sorry i got sent to the 1300s and i had to fight evil skeletons

this post has gotten to the people who dont know about army of darkness

You know,

I've never known a thing in my life and I'm not starting now. Away with ye.

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Well, I'm Foone now (demonstrably untrue, I only own one very normal type of keyboard).

Welcome to being foone! Finally I can retire, someone else has taken up the mantle

I added polls back to Goblin (still a bit broken when reblogged, working on it), and what's the first one that got posted??

I'm so proud of our tiny community 🥲

#goblin#bug race

the last line hit me like a fuckin sledgehammer

it's me boy, the medieval scribe speaking to you inside your brain. listen to me boy. draw in the margins of your notes instead of paying attention

By the saints, that's no medieval scribe...

that's the demon Titivillus!

EGADS. FOILED AGAIN

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