Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgmod to Technology@beehaw.org – 147 points –
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
404media.co

this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had already been swirling that this would occur, but this just cements that they were correct

95

You are viewing a single comment

How does tumblr keep jumping into bad decisions don't they know their audience lmao

I mean, they let themselves get bought by Yahoo and they banned erotic art. Its like they want to fail.

Then they got bought automattic, the owners of wordpress.com

Yes, I recall when they had a policy of never allowing account deletion.