Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
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Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had already been swirling that this would occur, but this just cements that they were correct

  • petrescatraian
    1•4 months ago

    @helenslunch Heh, I beg to differ about removing, I’d sure want it removed from time to time, don’t know what they’re thinking.

    Just that when I originally signed up for these services, I did it not with the intent of feeding data to a piece of software that would fundamentally influence our decisions.

    But hey, tech companies gotta tech company…

    • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
      2•4 months ago

      You don’t have to tag me. I can see it when you reply to me.

      I’d sure want it removed from time to time

      What you want and reality are unfortunately not the same thing.

      • @Zoop@beehaw.org
        3•4 months ago

        A lot of ActivityPub software that federates with Lemmy does that tag thing automatically; like Mastodon, for example.

              • petrescatraian
                2•4 months ago

                Thanks for the feedback. On the other hand it is a hassle for me to manually remove the tags as well on every comment. Especially on mobile where you cannot Ctrl+A then Backspace or Del

                I initially thought I found a setting on Friendica that would disable this, but instead it hid these from my own view. I thought this was the case only on Mastodon to ensure compatibility. Sadly, it was not, as we saw, so I toggled that setting back.

                Yes, it really sucks that Gargron’s decisions weigh so much on the Fediverse atm, as the most people are on Mastodon, and all software needs to ensure compatibility with it first.

                Hope this reply gets to you without the tags now as well. 🙂

      • petrescatraian
        2•4 months ago

        @helenslunch I am not tagging you, it is automatically tagging you, sorry.

        What you want and reality are unfortunately not the same thing.

        Wish they were…

          • @jarfil@beehaw.org
            1•4 months ago

            The fines written in the laws are pretty huge, enough to destroy a small business, and to make large corporations invest into following them. Seems to work, with some historically large fines already applied.