The company that owns WordPress and Tumblr is allegedly working out a deal to sell content created on those sites to AI companies for training AI bots. While users will reportedly be given the option to opt out of this program, it appears that this practice could go into effect as early as this week.
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?