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Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
submitted 8 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 1 points 8 months ago

I'm going to destroy my stuff so that nobody gets any value out of it!

I started blanking my Reddit history when they started banning me by retroactively applying new content rules to 10 years old comments... and somewhat hilariously, sold the few MOONs generated from some of that content, so effectively got paid for blank content. 😙🎶

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