Alright Lets Go! Ask Me What My Trademark Is!

Alright let’s go! 📬 Ask me what my trademark is! 📬

New ask game:

Reblog if you want your followers to tell you what your trademark ™️ is. Like, what’s that thing that really identifies you.

Don’t mind me, just going feral over my ult bias again 😵‍💫

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.

Please be aware that the "opt-out" choice is just a way to try to appease people. But Tumblr has not been transparent about when has data been sold and shared with AI companies, and there are sources that confirm that data has already been shared before the toggle was even provided to users.

Also, it seems to include data they should not have been able to give under any circumstance, including that of deactivated blogs, private messages and conversations, stuff from private blogs, and so on.

Do not believe that "AI companies will honor the "opt-out request retroactively". Once they've got their hands on your data (and they have), they won't be "honoring" an opt-out option retroactively. There is no way to confirm or deny what data do they have: The fact they are completely opaque on what do they currently "own" and have, means that they can do whatever they want with it. How can you prove they have your data if they don't give everyone free access to see what they've stolen already?

So, yeah, opt out of data sharing, but be aware that this isn't stopping anyone from taking your data. They already have been taking it, before you were given that option. Go and go to Tumblr's Suppport and leave your Feedback on this (politely, but firmly- not everyone in the company is responsible for this.)

Finally: Opt out is not good under any circumstance. Deactivated people can't opt out. People who have lost their passwords can't opt out. People who can't access internet or computers can't opt out. People who had their content reposted can't opt out. Dead people can't opt out. When DeviantArt released their AI image generator, saying that it wasn't trained on people who didn't consent to it, it was proven it could easily replicate the styles of people who had passed away, as seen here. So, yeah. AI companies cannot be trusted to have any sort of respect for people's data and content, because this entire thing is just a data laundering scheme.

Please do reblog for awareness.

My entire page is just gonna be me going “Dammit Yoongi” over and over again, isn’t it 🥲

"I'm D boy because I'm from D!"

Reblog for Yoongi’s bday!!

(Blank) For The Holidays

Author: @sabiekay

Paring: Barista! Yoongi x Barista! Reader

Rating: PG-13 (for subject matter)

Genre: Christmas Romance, Coworkers to Lovers, Fluff, Angst, Coworkers AU

Trigger Warnings: mentions of neglectful parent/parental abandonment, mentions of loneliness

Word Count: 16K

Summary: People like you are supposed to hate Christmas. Every Christmas song and movie talks about how there’s “no place like home for the holidays” and “Christmas is for families to gather around”, but you have neither. Over the years you’ve just settled on a general like for the season rather than a full out distaste. However, your Christmas obsessed coworker keeps asking you why you’re working at The Coffee Bee for the holidays (again), and you start reconsidering your stance on hating the holiday as all you want to do is go back to your place with a bottle of wine for company rather than explain why Christmas for you is always spent alone with some take-and-bake pizza and Netflix. But then your introverted coworker Yoongi invites you to his small holiday party the weekend before Christmas, and you learn that maybe home for the holidays isn’t a place, but a feeling.

Author’s Note: This story will touch on some heavy subjects, but ultimately is about comfort and what the definition of “home” and “family” can really mean. Also, it’s a Christmas fic, so expect some of those holiday tropes in there!

Read here!!!: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36029344

Thank you for reading! And happy holidays! (we’re gonna ignore that this Christmas fic is posted 3 days after the holiday ended shhhhhhhh)