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Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)

submitted 7 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had already been swirling that this would occur, but this just cements that they were correct

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, and no, and no:

If a user wants to assign ownership to a company, that's their right.
These companies DO NOT ask for ownership, they only license the content (ownership carries responsibilities, they don't want those).
Whether a user wants to get paid or not, is again up to them (see the various OpenSource and CC licenses).

[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Hard disagree.

Companies don't give you a good chance to prevent them from eroding your control on the data further.
Even if they technically disown the data, they're doing even worse. They are de-facto doing anything they want without taking responsibility
Open source / CC licenses don't apply to whatever user data people are talking about here