Matt Mullenweg's face-heel turn completes: Wordpress and Tumblr text corpuses to be sold for LLM training (www.404media.co)

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just think: an AI trained on depressed social justice queers

wonder what Hive is making of Bluesky

"you took a perfectly good pocket calculator and gave it anxiety"

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago

no i don't have an unpaywalled copy, but it's 404 so i'll assume the article delivers on the headline and intro paras

[-] self@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago

404 is the first time I’ve ever felt like a news source (that isn’t a journalist I know personally) has been consistently high quality enough to pay for it

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

it's the only news site I'm currently subscribed to. consistently great work is hard to find

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