• Steve
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    227 months ago

    One advantage over wordpress is that it avoids bringing its parent company, Automatic, into the Fediverse.

    From Wikipedia:

    In February 2024, Automattic announced that it would begin selling user data from Tumblr and WordPress to Midjourney and OpenAI.

      • ivy
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        97 months ago

        You’re not wrong in all likelihood, but Mastodon and Misskey and their forks all have a thingy to send an opt out of AI scraping request.

      • Steve
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        57 months ago

        Thank you, that’s an important distinction. I hope they can be trusted to live up to that. However it still feels l pretty problematic to bring them in and would be a lot of opting in to debate and implement. It remains a pretty big violation of user privacy and trust and it says here:

        As if that weren’t bad enough, preparations for the sale went poorly, and it seems large categories of Tumblr posts that weren’t supposed to be sold were added to the mix anyway. That data includes:

        Private posts from public accounts
        
        Posts on deleted or suspended accounts
        
        Unanswered asks
        
        Private answers
        
        Explicit posts
        
        Posts from partner accounts, like ad campaigns where Tumblr doesn't own the rights. (Apple is specifically named here.) 
        
        • ivy
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          37 months ago

          Hell a lot of the time the data just ends up labelled “do not share” but still ends up in shared databases or stolen ones

    • ivy
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      27 months ago

      That’s a dealbreaker for me, I may consider badgering people in my Wordpress RSS folder to ditch it, on a case-by-case basis. Even liberals are sensitive to AI stuff because it upsets them to see Journalism Infringed