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.

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”

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Wordpress and Docusign of all businesses are now in the AI training hype train.

    Because there’s nothing companies love more than torching their own good reputations for a bit of short term profit* at the expense of society!

    * probably not even

    • AcausalRobotGod@awful.systemsEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      I can understand Wordpress doing it, but DOCUSIGN??? I’m not a federal judge or anything but I would immediately stop using their service for anything, sending stuff through the service is already a little sketchy, but I’m not going to give away my precious, precious boilerplate.