https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/
(reading this entire article is free, you just have to sign up for an account on the site)
TL;DR:
- tumblr is planning to routinely scrape user data to sell to midjourney/openAI
- they ALREADY scraped a shit ton of data and fucked up at it, scraping a bunch of private, explicit, deleted and copyrighted material
- there's going to be an opt-out policy, but it's not an immediate opt-out and it relies entirely on AI companies following the honors system
- Automattic's head of AI is named Andrew Spittle. not crucial information, but i did want to underline that
from what The Homies and i can tell this doesn't include privately hosted blogs with Wordpress installed, only blogs hosted on Wordpress.com, btw. if you used Wordpress to build your webcomic site or something, you're fine.
anyways. there are probably gonna be more people coming here from tumblr! that means more work for admins and more server load to pay for. maybe toss eggbug a few dollars before the tide rises
also, because i know this post might blow up, if you have more than a few dollars to spare, consider buying a comic or something from my store
