Alright, y’all. Follow-up on this poll as promised…

Creative Commons published it. Afterward they shared their perspective on AI vs CC content. In short, “to get a sense of the various views on this question, we launched a Twitter poll where nearly half of respondents said, ‘it depends.’ We agree.”

https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/

They made some questionable comments about it…

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CC #ContentLicense #CreativeCommons #AITheft #EatTheRich
https://mas.to/@markwyner/114782533726610769

@luciedigitalni Oh, but people did consent when they agreed to terms of service granting licenses of their content to these companies. Some people have been raising the issue that giving up licenses to your content will be problematic, but they were shouted down by the "don't worry about, just lawyer stuff, everyone does it" crowd. And now those chickens are coming home to roost.

#DataProtection #ContentLicense

For the love of all that is holy don’t pay for a blue sky invite. #MastodonNews April 30, 2023

Now for hundreds of dollars you can join the one and only server on this open distributed network.

TechCrunch: Bluesky invites become a hot commodity as demand for the Twitter alternative outstrips access >>> https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/02/bluesky-invites-become-a-hot-commodity-as-demand-for-the-twitter-alternative-outstrips-access/

"Bluesky invites have become such a hot commodity they’ve been selling for anywhere between $120 to as much as $400 on eBay in recent days."

"...its community has topped 50,000 users."

#ContentLicense #DataProtection

#MastodonNews April 30, 2023

Now for hundreds of dollars you can join the one and only server on this open distributed network.

TechCrunch: Bluesky invites become a hot commodity as demand for the Twitter alternative outstrips access >>> https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/02/bluesky-invites-become-a-hot-commodity-as-demand-for-the-twitter-alternative-outstrips-access/

"Bluesky invites have become such a hot commodity they’ve been selling for anywhere between $120 to as much as $400 on eBay in recent days."

"...its community has topped 50,000 users."

#ContentLicense #DataProtection

#MastodonNews April 30, 2023

Sure our Terms of Service taking ownership of your content are a crazy, says #Bluesky CEO Jay Gaber. It's the lawyers' fault, trust her...

Yahoo: Users Flock to Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Rival BlueSky, but Fine Print Gives Some Pause >>> https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/users-flock-jack-dorsey-twitter-155832584.html

“It was not my intent for the legalese to end up so confusing and unfriendly... We’ve already been working on a second pass over the past few weeks.”

#ContentLicense #DataProtection

#MastodonNews April 30, 2023

Tech media starting to take notice of the insane #Bluesky Terms of Service.

Mashable: What to know before signing up for Bluesky - Signing up means signing over your content. >>> https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-twitter-terms-of-service

"You know what they say in tech: move fast, break things, and claim ownership of your users' content!"

#twittermigration #ContentLicense #DataProtection