Gregory's ServerNEW: Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to internal documentation we've reviewed
https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/
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Curtis McHale
@aral @aetataureate @404mediaco from one corner that’s been working with WP for 12+ years he’s been questionable for a while but most people just stay out of his sight because he’s also vindictive. 
Mayank
@404mediaco i guess it was only a matter of time before these AI companies would start buying data (instead of stealing, like they have been) all the more reason to own your content.  
Vile Lasagna
@404mediaco well, now I need to figure out if this is just WordPress.com or of I need to bloody migrate my entire website out of my local WordPress install Great stuff, just what I needed
Roldy Clark
@VileLasagna @404mediaco probably just wordpress.com. Unless you have an official plugin that’s harvesting data in someway like Jetpack maybe.
Albert Magellan
@404mediaco
Jiří Eischmann :fedora:
@404mediaco I'm glad I migrated my blog from WordPress.com to my own instance last year.
Edgar Walthert
@404mediaco @piper Wow, this is so effed!
Dimitris A. Nakos
@404mediaco Jesus fucking christ.... So basically we only have what? Our .txt files to work with and share them via fps to each other in order to communicate our thoughts? Fuck this shit. I so wanna go and live inside a cave. 0 conveniences but fuck sake I'll have peace of mind... 
COD
@nakdim @404mediaco Shared text files would be awesome, or maybe we all learn to use Finger again. Who needs all the dB bloat anyway? kidding/not kidding.
MeltingPenguins
@404mediaco it's so fucked >:( on the other hand, trying to 'train' on tumblr is like letting ai drink bleach...  
McEvnon
@404mediaco Well now I am even more glad that I jumped wordpress.com ship years ago. Shame for wordpress.org thou because I feel it will drag it down to into enshitification abyss. 
[realhackhistory@home]#
@404mediaco love to pay WordPress for the privilege of having them sell my data to AI robber barons. 
Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸
@404mediaco Please don't mix up WordPress and WordPress.com. Those are two separate things. |
@404mediaco holy cow. mullenweg really just diving for the very bottom of the sea floor at this point. i feel foolish that i thought he was okay all this time.