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Tumblr’s AI opt-out feature is live.

As mentioned yesterday, Tumblr now has info about opting out of AI data scraping on its help page — it’s available via the “prevent third-party sharing” toggle. For visual artists who are still worried about the prospect of AI tools training on their work, there are less official ways to stop that, too.

A screenshot of the “prevent third-party sharing” toggle as described in the link posted above.
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