Automattic is working on a business deal with Midjourney and OpenAI and has already prepared an initial batch of content to feed their models. An unnamed internal...
  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    1 year ago

    Everyone repeat it with me:
    If you aren’t paying for the service, you’re the product.

  • phreekno@lemmy.worldOP
    121·
    1 year ago

    The insider said that Automattic plans to provide full opt-out rights to users interested in protecting their public data, including posts and pictures. However, internal posts indicate that Tumblr has already provided Midjourney and OpenAI an “initial data dump” of all publicly posted content between 2014 and 2023. Furthermore, a “mistake” caused Automattic to share private data of Tumblr users with the two AI companies as well.

    Fantastic!

        • Dojan@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          They definitely do. The only thing a corporation cares about is profit, and they’ll gladly destroy the world we live on for the sake of maximising profit. The whole idea of “infinite growth” is so stupid.

  • xenomor@lemmy.world
    54·
    1 year ago

    Someone is reading the text people posted to a public forum on the internet. Oh, the humanity!