It's Time For The Subinterest Cycle Again -- This Time We're Back To The Silli Blobs Game

Something I really don't understand about AI companies buying the rights to steal content from social media to feed their data training sets is, well. It's illegal as hell.

That content does not belong to the social media companies to start with. Personal data is a bit nebulous as it is, and some countries have better protection about it than others, but posting a picture on tumblr doesn't mean that Automatic automatically has the right to use, distribute and sell it as it sees fit.

I mean. Official accounts for big companies like Disney use social media for advertising. But posting a picture of Elsa on Twitter doesn't mean they're giving Twitter the right to use and sell that picture. But suddenly Twitter sells the nebulous ability to "scrape content from Twitter for AI training", so now Midjourney owns that picture of Elsa? What's the fucking ruling there?

People own the rights of what they have created even without officially registering it for trademarking (which is expensive as hell, by the way). Social media selling content means that they are selling copyrighted material created by its users- Some of it coming from big companies that have trademarked the shit out of everything, some of it coming from small creators who STILL have the rights to what they've created even without a trademark.

Curently, what you produce through AI generators is not actually copyrighted, since it was not made by a human, but what gets fed into the data training sets is often copyrighted material from unconsenting people. It basically is a copyright laundering scheme.

I do wholeheartedly hope that some regulations will be put in place, and hoping that big companies will, at least, do their best to help this case even if its just to protect their own IPs and property. Given how overprotective have Disney, Nintendo and other big names been about their content, I can't expect they'll be happy having it being sold to Midjourney, OpenAI and other crap for free, without their consent.

feels kinda surreal with how long this game's been in the public eye

my weird little thing for custom pokemon cards continues; this time i made them to commemorate my Teal Mask team

a tribute to fallen warriors

you say usable against its will but like hey at least it's not fucking reddit

figured out a way you can search for posts that are tagged TWO things on a blog!!! feeling clever

for anyone else who didn’t know, this is the format!:

https://[blogURL].tumblr.com/search/%23[tag1]%2C%20%23[tag2]

remove the [brackets] when using it!

New Year Bitches!

just finished Indigo Disk and man i can't believe the power of friendship got me twice in one Pokémon game

my sweet sweet doofus children just bawling their eyes out, learning kieran pushed himself to the point of emptiness all because he looked up to us, the ending cutscene with the friends bit and possibly the happiest kieran yet, man this dlc broke me in a good way

Scarlet & Violet might possibly be the most fragile switch games ever (honestly $95 per game+dlc is probably double its actual worth from a technical standpoint) but i'll be damned if these games don't have the actual best writing in the series and i am so excited for the actual official release of Mochi Mayhem (already seen it from a yt video but god damn i'm excited to play it for real, maybe they'll add some stuff in between now and the 11th)

link

just had an idea that's either absolutely amazing or the worst thing ever: ddlc x rwby crossover

yeah it sounds really bad but like c'mon man potential is nearly limitless

I'm not gonna do pokemon presents Predictions-- I'll do pokemon presents Hopes

I would like it very much if:

-Something new and Ogerpon-related is mentioned (COUUUGH MOVIE OR HORIZONS ARC)

-Hoopa plays some significant role in Legends ZA's story

-We get a new mythical pokemon

and that's about it