Jason KoeblerNEW: Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI for AI training, according to internal documentation we've reviewed at 404 Media
https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/
Adam - The Funny Brain@jasonkoebler sorry if this is a daft question, but does this affect hosted wordpress installs? I was tempted to ditch wordpress anyway to be fair, but feared migrating pains
Wolfi@TheFunnyBrainGames @jasonkoebler self hosted blogs are not affected, see: https://phpc.social/@stevegrunwell/112005152887711510
Steve Grunwell (@[email protected])
Some important context as this news breaks: #WordPress is an open-source project, available at WordPress.org. One of its co-founders, Matt Mullenweg, is CEO of #Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and owns #Tumblr. They can’t sell what they don’t have, so “WordPress” here refers to WordPress.com, *not* self-hosted WordPress instances. BUT many self-hosted instances use the Jetpack plugin, which does send data to WordPress.com, so that might be sold 🤬 https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/112004850884204466