#AI #GenerativeAI #MidJourney #OpenAI #Tumbr #Wordpress: "Tumblr and WordPress.com are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals.
The exact types of data from each platform going to each company are not spelled out in documentation we’ve reviewed, but internal communications reviewed by 404 Media make clear that deals between Automattic, the platforms’ parent company, and OpenAI and Midjourney are imminent.
The internal documentation details a messy and controversial process within Tumblr itself. One internal post made by Cyle Gage, a product manager at Tumblr, states that a query made to prepare data for OpenAI and Midjourney compiled a huge number of user posts that it wasn’t supposed to. It is not clear from Gage’s post whether this data has already been sent to OpenAI and Midjourney, or whether Gage was detailing a process for scrubbing the data before it was to be sent."
https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/
The story about the Carpathia’s heroic efforts to save the survivors of the Titanic was so much more powerful than I’d ever known. Highly recommended reading.
https://www.tumblr.com/mylordshesacactus/190414833023/please-make-a-post-about-the-story-of-the-rms
Really excited to hear the news of #tumbr implementing the #activitypub soon
Tumblr used to be my favorite website on internet for a long time, having it integrated into the fediverse is super exciting

Techcrunch lancia una notizia-bomba che se confermata darà una svolta al fediverso:
Tumblr aggiungerà il supporto per #ActivityPub, il protocollo sociale che alimenta #Mastodon e altre applicazioni del fediverso!
#Tumbr, seppur in risalita di popolarità, non è più attivo come in passato ma si stima abbia poco meno di 17 milioni di utenti attivi, ben 8 volte quelli di mastodon e potrebbero portare presto il #fediverso verso i 20 milioni di utenti attivi!
Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that today is powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others.