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Owner of WordPress and Tumblr reportedly in talks to sell user content to train AI (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Meh. If you're using any platform for free, assume what you say will be used for monetization.

If you're using Tumblr/WordPress.com... chances are your content is public anyways.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

But both these sites HEAVILY predate AI or LLMs. Which then raises the question, how robust is their ToU & ToS from 2009? Can a corpo lawyer convincingly argue the limits of ‘legitimate use’ as completely unlimited?