Lines Between Logical Arguments And Common Sense Are Blurred If Not Completely Erased

So, you may have heard that Tumblr is using people’s art to train AI. It does this by taking any images people upload, and feeding them to the AI for training.

So I made a little thing you can use to defend against this. It might not be SUPER effective, but it’ll at least slow things down and hurt the overall effectiveness of AIs trained on it.

This is my anti-AI image. It’s designed to clog up the training of the AI by being mass reblogged / uploaded.

To understand how this works, you first have to understand how AI image generation works. The AI is trained on a massive amount of images, and learns to reproduce images that are similar.

Now, we want to make a significant portion of the AI’s training data consist of this image. If we do this, then the AI will struggle to generate art effectively, as it won’t have as much viable training data. Instead it’ll be more likely to just generate an image similar to this one.

Reblog it to spread the word, but be sure to take a screenshot or download the image instead, rather than just reblogging. That way it counts it as a new image, and feeds it to the AI again.

Limmy deleted best tweet of all time I'm so mad

i just idly thought about the idea of a computer downloading sexualities so i made a comic. i thought it was funny but it might not be

Things to bring back in books:

Chapter titles

Actually having a synopsis on the back instead of reviews no one will read

Don’t return ebooks or audiobooks you’ve consumed on Amazon and Audible

Amazon and Audible made it into their policy that you can return ebooks and audiobooks and get a full refund.

They actively promote this, making their book shop into a book lending service, de facto a library you subscribe to. That’s their business plan to encourage subscribtions.

The dirty thing, however, is that Amazon and Audible are making the authors pay for each refunded item. They will detract money, income, royalties, from the authors’ account. They’re not hurting from the refund, the author is.

Look, no-one is saying you’re not allowed to return an item if you’ve read the first 50 pages or listened to the first 45 minutes. Maybe the style is not your thing. Maybe you don’t like the narrator’s voice. Maybe the quality of the writing drops severely after chapter three. Go ahead, if the product is bad, return it.

What I’m talking about is that no one should be able to listen to a ten-hour audiobook or read through nearly an entire novel and still get a refund.

Most of the readers don’t know who’s paying for this business plan. It’s not Amazon and Audible, they’re still keeping your subscription money. It’s the authors.

Spread the word.

(this poll is intended to raise awareness)

And if you're interested, go see The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. Support 2D animation!

sonic miku. reblog her immediately.

since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"