ailurinae jv

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.

jv

@staff, given the 404 media post, this PR announcement you had prepared for tomorrow is very clearly out of date, and I would just remove the post and write something else.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

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ailurinae icefireanimates

icefireanimates

i love how tumblr users just unanimously decide when a post is going to become a sitewide meme.

in 10 years, if this site still exists, someone will be friendpilled visitmaxxing on here, and that’s beautiful.

ailurinae maple-syrup-drinker

maple-syrup-drinker

A Reddit post on r/thomastheplankengine by u/Pyrouge1. The title goes, "I had a thing where there was this trend where cats started doing this thing called loafmaxing and it was just them loafing as perfectly as possible". The attached image is of a white cat with orange spots sitting in a loaf position with the caption "Binx".

The friendpilled visitmaxxer comic where Smudge the Cat is edited over the person on the right in both frames. The edited text says: "Yeah so I went to go sit and loaf around—", "Sitpilled loafmaxxer".

I fuckin love this meme

ailurinae theinfinitetrial

theinfinitetrial

ailurinae w-h-y--f-a-t-h-e-r

w-h-y--f-a-t-h-e-r

Is this anything?

ailurinae dinner-rol

dinner-rol

couldnt stop thinking this in my econ lecture today every time someone coughed (every five seconds)

ailurinae tetrapodomorpha

girlballs

dunkin donuts more like dick in donuts. lol.

grxi

But where do you balls go

girlballs

in a fresh hot coffee

dragongirlbunny

YOWCH!!!

massachusetts-official

Official Post of Massachusetts

ailurinae microwaved-garlic-bread

keepcalmandcarriefischer

It's the last day of April

my-little-bologna

Wake up babe, new meta layer just dropped

ailurinae mostbrilliantidiot

beardedmrbean

I appreciate the sound effects they added in.

ailurinae iheartvelma

iheartvelma

I...wow! You people really like this bird video. (Did someone Tumblr Famous reblog it?)

ailurinae

Mostly these two looks like. IDK boggmann though

ailurinae strongintherealgay

mostly-funnytwittertweets

ailurinae mostbrilliantidiot

foone

The thing neurotypicals tend not to understand about the ADHD brain is that it really only has two gears

I turn to the chalkboard and carefully write out

WORKIN' HARD

HARDLY WORKIN'

kaminarider

Much like a cars transmission getting stuck between gears the adhd brain can also access a secret mode called HORKLY WARDIN' that feels bad

ailurinae catroidvania

shamebats

We really do need to bring back the word "trolling" and warning ppl not to feed the trolls

shamebats

That TikTok of ppl pouring tomato sauce directly on the counter, adding spaghetti & mixing it with their hands while commenting how great of an idea it is? Yeah, we used to call that trolling, it's pathetic & bc all they want from it is attention, the best thing is not to give them any. Block & move on.

I keep seeing it on here too. Someone comments something outrageous on a post & gets dozens of ppl to respond, filling the entire comment section & making it unusable. And on Instagram, a comment saying "I hate colors" on a post of someone showing off colorful art gets 100 replies while positive comments get none. Congrats, you've fed the troll. Now stop doing it.

shamebats

Trolling used to get you banned from forums. Now they call you an influencer and give you brand deals & ad revenue. That's why it's more important than ever not to feed the trolls, especially in spaces where any attention is good attention and getting yelled at by 10k ppl in the comments counts as "engagement", boosting your troll post in the algorithm.