Owner of WordPress and Tumblr reportedly in talks to sell user content to train AI

https://lemmy.world/post/12518755

Owner of WordPress and Tumblr reportedly in talks to sell user content to train AI - Lemmy.World

Meh. If you’re using any platform for free, assume what you say will be used for monetization.

If you’re using Tumblr/WordPress.com… chances are your content is public anyways.

But both these sites HEAVILY predate AI or LLMs. Which then raises the question, how robust is their ToU & ToS from 2009? Can a corpo lawyer convincingly argue the limits of ‘legitimate use’ as completely unlimited?