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EdibleFriend ,
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Bro…tumblr is full of some WEIRD FUCKIN SHIT YO

RadicalCandour ,

Hey now, Don’t kink shame the weirdos

EdibleFriend ,
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I know because I was one of those weirdos lol

swayevenly ,

Got 'em.

Sad they’re doing this with Tumblr though. It was fun but I just deleted my 10+ year old account.

EdibleFriend ,
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haha its been about that long since I even logged into mine.

swayevenly ,

I heard now is the best time to check it out

nickhammes ,

I, for one, am looking forward to the rise of generative AI trained on 2014 tumblr, hallucinating Superwholock jokes where they don’t belong, cosplayers dying themselves grey in a bathtub, and DashCon references where nobody expects them

EdibleFriend ,
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Bro this shit is gonna make AI UwU

harsh3466 ,

Shit like this should be opt in by default. But no. Instead of respecting the users they count on ignorance, forgetfulness, and obfuscation for this kind of fuckery.

agent_flounder ,
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Anything to make a buck.

Dio ,
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Lmao.

SuperSynthia ,

Not only am I really glad to not be on tumblr, but this further shows I shouldn’t use wordpress for my website even though there is an opensource version

KingThrillgore ,
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WordPress is either:

  • overkill for a lot of users, when static site generators do the job faster and easier
  • underkill when you have topology, data types, logic, and content pipeline challenges, for which Drupal is king but far more complex
terminhell ,

Can we get a list of companies NOT doing this? I’d assume it’s going to be much shorter.

IllNess ,

All these AI and machine learning companies are taking content directly from websites and ignoring robot.txt files.

If your content is able to be crawled, even without being listed on search engines, I don’t think it really matters.

T156 ,

It might help proof an AI company against legal issues that might be brought about by their using the content. If they’re ever sued by Automattic, then they can just point to the deal and say that they bought the data from them. There’s much less ambiguity.

IllNess ,

You are correct, about the legal stuff. These companies are being sued all the time.

Doing this deal also makes processing the data a lot easier. Being handed a big ass database would be a lot easier than crawling for content.

What I posted was about how they operate. These companies showed time and time again that they don’t really care what data they are taking or from whom. They will even take their own AI or machine learning content and put it in their own system.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

To complicate matters even further, advertising content that isn’t even owned by Automattic, including ads from an old Apple Music campaign, has also reportedly made its way into the training data set.

The plans at Automattic have been so controversial internally, that a product manager has even started pulling his own photos off Tumblr to make sure they’re not used to train AI, according to 404.

Generative AI has become a big business ever since OpenAI first launched ChatGPT in late 2022 and text-prompt image creators soon followed from a number of companies.

But major publishers have complained, with some even filing lawsuits, alleging that much of the data used to train these systems was either pirated or doesn’t constitute “fair use” under existing copyright regimes.

In response to emailed questions on Tuesday, Automattic directed Gizmodo to a new post that more or less confirmed 404 Media’s reporting, while trying to sell the move to consumers as an opportunity to “give you more control over the content you’ve created.”

We also plan to take that a step further and regularly update any partners about people who newly opt-out and ask that their content be removed from past sources and future training.”

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