Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

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

  • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I agree with some privacy protection laws, but come on. Everyone should know that if it is free, you are the product. How did anyone not see this coming? The terms are not in your favor.

    Secondly, I have no issue with training ai on publicly available data, which includes anything put out online. At the same time, I am open to making laws that ai trained on said data must be publicly available at no charge as it seems not only fair, but reciprical.