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Stop using #Mailchimp.

Mailchimp (a proprietary mailing list and customer CMS platform) has updated its terms of service.

Mailchimp is planning to feed your email content and customer contacts into its AI models.

Mailchimp's email generating AI might spit out content that infringements on another person's copyright. And the new Mailchimp terms of service say you are legally liable for that copyright infringement, not them.

See section 30. Generative AI Features: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/preview/

Archive.org historical link: https://web.archive.org/web/20231018110117/https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/preview/

This is a good time to switch to open source mailing list software:

Mailman: https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/
- hosted services from https://mailmanlists.net/

Mautic: https://www.mautic.org/
- hosted services from https://friendly.ch/en/automate

SendPortal: https://sendportal.io/

Caveat: I haven't tried the software and hosted services mentioned, except mailman. YMMV.

Getting the News Has Never Been More Complicated https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/10/17/getting-the-news-has-never-been-more-complicated/ via @damemagazine

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