Act now to stop WordPress and Tumblr selling your content to AI firms
Act now to stop WordPress and Tumblr selling your content to AI firms
If sharing your content with AI firms is such a great thing for the publishers of blogs, you have to wonder why Automattic feels the need to enable it by default rather than insisting they opt-out…
Act now
I was expecting some suggestions to act or unite in opposition. The linked post has none of that though, despite its title. It's a rant/criticism, not a call to action.
Yet idiots keep upvoting it. Lemmy really isn't any better than Reddit. I'll get down voted for saying this though because apparently it's taboo to criticize lemmy. We have to pretend like it's somehow magically protected from all the things that made reddit suck ass.
When you chose to use their free service, you already sold your soul to devil.
This is such a flawed argument though, many of us remember when these services started coming out and the general Zeitgeist was "wow! What an amazing and interesting way to connect to each other!" There wasn't too much public concern that our works would be sold to companies because these were just "platforms" places where you could shout out to the world about your passion.
The idea that this was a mistake the end user should have known better about is wrong because there was no preconception that your creative ideas were at any sort of risk, AI didn't exist and it was commonly accepted that "of course you owned this, you made it".
If you apply such a modern lens to the very early stages of the internet, of course it's going to look stupid. But remember that most people at the time thought they'd be safe and wouldn't willingly subject themselves to this kind of treatment
I don’t disagree with you, nor am I trying to blame people who didn’t know. I didn’t know myself either 20 years ago. I’m just stating a fact and hope people can learn these, and if they still choose one thing over the other, don’t come and cry.
Say the line Bart!
If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product.
Also applies: no such thing as a free lunch.
Is Wordpress a service? It seems to be software that is apparently runs on other people’s property. So this is what I’m confused about. I write a blog that is served by a non-profit org and the software is apparently Wordpress. I don’t understand how the copyright on my work in this context would exempt Wordpress in any way.
(edit) This article clears it up → https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-difference-between-wordpress-and-wordpresscom
Do we know whether federated content (say from Lemmy or Mastodon) with these sites may be under the deal as well?
They don't need a deal with Lemmy.
It's an open platform, they can just scrape all the data.
this may make it easier tho. as in, why set up another instance when you can just buy it from a well-known player?
How would this apply for wordpress? Or do you mean the .com and not the .org?
https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-difference-between-wordpress-and-wordpresscom?ref=selfh.st
"If you’re confused, don't worry; it’s been confusing everyone for two decades, and is a frequent topic of debate. To make it simple, think of it this way: If you go to WordPress.com to sign into your site, your site content is at risk of being used to train AI models. If your site is hosted anywhere other than WordPress.com (like on GoDaddy, Bluehost, or Siteground), then you have a self-hosted WordPress site."
Useless article is useless. Gives literally zero useful solutions. Just complains about AI. Who upvoted this?
People still use tumblr? Lol why?
Because of the general culture and mindset. Haven't found that anywhere else. That mindset also means they're going to get a whole lot of poison in their datasets.