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Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
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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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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

The EU is trying to legitimise it, which is completely the wrong take.

I think one of either two courses of action should be taken by lawmakers. Either:

  1. Data collection must be made open, such that anyone can access the data (but processing of data can be proprietary), or,
  2. Websites should pay people for the data they take.

Data has value, it is completely unacceptable that this value is taken without consideration.

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