Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

Tech bros want robot slaves/servants to do work for them or engage with them because unlike biological humans they have no choice or rights.
I want robots who can be my friends by personal choice, just like biological humans can be.
We are not the same.

If you're on Tumblr, the AI scraping is being rolled out NOW NOW NOW.

You can turn on 'Prevent third-party sharing for [blog name]' to opt out.

You have to do this for each blog individually. It wasn't there for me at first, but when I navigated to my blog settings via View blog it updated - don't know if that was coincidence. Anyway:

On web: select Account > Your blog > View blog > Blog Settings

I'm off to see if there's anything I can do on WP. #tumblr

I want y'all to notice something else about tumblr's opt-out AI setting. Look at how it was officially announced:

And now I ask you to consider something else: When we introduced "blaze other people posts", Staff also got a lot of flak for making it an opt-out setting. But really it wasn't (at first): When it was launched, every tumblr user got a pop-up the next time they logged in telling them about the change and warning them to go to settings and disable the new checkbox if they weren't ok with it. And you didn't really get opted-in until you had seen that pop-up: It could have been better, but at least there wasn't anyone being opted-in without their knowledge.

But with AI? no pop-up, just a (very hidden) new checkbox in the blog settings, and a @staff announcement. An Staff post that makes an strong use of passive voice to not making it too clear that tumblr ACTUALLY has partnered with AI companies to sell your data: It looks like they are being nice and giving you the chance to add an extra layer of security against data scraping, right? nothing too urgent, don't worry about it!

But then the 404 media post went out a day before they intended to (quietly) launch this and they had to rush it out. With the verbiage that was intended for a purposely low-key announcement. Sure, without that 404 post there would be some low-key pitchforks and torches, but they weren't planning to let us know that AUTOMATTIC ALREADY HAS A DEAL WITH OPENAI TO SEND YOUR DATA BY DEFAULT, just that "hey we are giving you this new setting to discourage any AI company to user your data for training... that would be crazy if it happened, uh? hehe".

@faraiwe Added alt text.

And about the AI opt-out setting Tumblr will deploy tomorrow, I'll just let you with the words of the person in charge of the heist:

Andrew Spittle, Automattic's head of AI replied: "We will notify existing partners on a regular basis about anyone who's opted out since the last time we provided a list. [...] I believe partners will honor this based on our conversations with them to this point."

La falta de vacunación no solo deja en vulnerabilidad a generaciones de niños, cuyos efectos podrán verse en el futuro, sino que abre el riesgo a la aparición de un brote o el resurgimiento de enfermedades erradicadas, lo que –además– podría aumentar las hospitalizaciones, secuelas como discapacidades, o pago de seguros por incapacidad laboral.

https://animalpolitico.com/salud/gobierno-amlo-vacunas-mexico-gasto-mas-que-pena-nieto?s=09

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