Automattic Reaches Agreement with AI Companies on Training Data, Tumblr Owner Involved in Data Sharing

Translated data: Automattic is in discussions with Midjourney and OpenAI regarding the use of user post data for training purposes. The company plans to allow users to opt out of sharing their data with third parties, sparking controversy over collaboration in providing training data among other companies. AI technology faces privacy and ethical issues in the utilization of training data.

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Tumblr Collaborates with OpenAI to Sell User Posts for AI Training

Tumblr's parent company is negotiating with OpenAI to sell user posts for AI training. Automattic plans to release a setting that allows users to opt out of data sharing with third parties. Automattic has crawled all public posts on Tumblr published from 2014 to 2023. Reddit has signed a $60 million annual agreement with Google to use user data for AI training. Shutterstock has signed with OpenAI.

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, plans to sell data to AI companies like OpenAI

According to a report by 404 Media, the owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com is in talks with AI companies Midjourney and OpenAI. Automattic plans to share data with third parties, including training data obtained from user posts. The company has scraped all public post content from Tumblr from 2014 to 2023, including content that will not be publicly displayed.

Automattic Reaches Agreement with AI Companies on Training Data, Tumblr Owner Involved in Data Sharing

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