WordPress and Tumblr Plan to Sell User Content to AI Companies

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WordPress and Tumblr Plan to Sell User Content to AI Companies
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I work in marketing, and every client I work with who has a WordPress website is using AI to write a lot of their content. This is going to lead to circularly trained AI for sure.

pretty sure this only applies to .com wordpress not self hosted

Not sure, especially since they compare it to the Squareapace deal which I believe is for all sites built on the platform.

there is no self hosted squarespace

My misunderstanding. But it looks like you need a .org to self-host WP, and like 99% of WP-built sites are .com as far as I've seen. I definitely do not know the technicals about different ways to host/build on the same platform, so I certainly defer to you there, but in any case, my bet is that any site/platform that gets scraped indiscriminately will lead to a lot of circular AI training.

There are A LOT of self hosted Wordpress sites out there. Many of them you wouldn’t know unless told they were Wordpress (I believe both The Verge and TechCrunch use self hosted Wordpress). I myself have two self hosted Wordpress sites. Though I’ve been considering moving away from Wordpress for awhile now.

Yeah there are def more self hosted than not. Wordpress.org is just the site for the open source project. Most hosting sites come with 1 click WordPress installs. I’ve built so many sites with it.