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Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
submitted 8 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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

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[-] eveninghere@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

Hard disagree.

  • Companies don't give you a good chance to prevent them from eroding your control on the data further.
  • Even if they technically disown the data, they're doing even worse. They are de-facto doing anything they want without taking responsibility
  • Open source / CC licenses don't apply to whatever user data people are talking about here
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