Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

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

  • helenslunch
    50·
    8 months ago

    Why wouldn’t they?

    This is the thing about your personal data; once it’s out there you’re never getting it back or removing it.

    • petrescatraian
      10·
      8 months ago

      @helenslunch Heh, I beg to differ about removing, I’d sure want it removed from time to time, don’t know what they’re thinking.

      Just that when I originally signed up for these services, I did it not with the intent of feeding data to a piece of software that would fundamentally influence our decisions.

      But hey, tech companies gotta tech company…

      • helenslunch
        20·
        8 months ago

        You don’t have to tag me. I can see it when you reply to me.

        I’d sure want it removed from time to time

        What you want and reality are unfortunately not the same thing.

        • Zoop
          30·
          8 months ago

          A lot of ActivityPub software that federates with Lemmy does that tag thing automatically; like Mastodon, for example.

          • helenslunch
            20·
            8 months ago

            I know they do but it makes zero sense and is really annoying. Much like character limits.

            • Omniraptor
              20·
              8 months ago

              so take it up with gargron, why complain to individual users…

                • petrescatraian
                  20·
                  8 months ago

                  Thanks for the feedback. On the other hand it is a hassle for me to manually remove the tags as well on every comment. Especially on mobile where you cannot Ctrl+A then Backspace or Del

                  I initially thought I found a setting on Friendica that would disable this, but instead it hid these from my own view. I thought this was the case only on Mastodon to ensure compatibility. Sadly, it was not, as we saw, so I toggled that setting back.

                  Yes, it really sucks that Gargron’s decisions weigh so much on the Fediverse atm, as the most people are on Mastodon, and all software needs to ensure compatibility with it first.

                  Hope this reply gets to you without the tags now as well. 🙂

        • petrescatraian
          20·
          8 months ago

          @helenslunch I am not tagging you, it is automatically tagging you, sorry.

          What you want and reality are unfortunately not the same thing.

          Wish they were…

        • jarfil
          10·
          8 months ago

          In the EU, we have the right to request removal.

          • helenslunch
            10·
            8 months ago

            Until the EU enforces those laws with sufficiently large fines, it won’t matter.

            • jarfil
              10·
              8 months ago

              The fines written in the laws are pretty huge, enough to destroy a small business, and to make large corporations invest into following them. Seems to work, with some historically large fines already applied.