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

  • renard_roux
    70·
    8 months ago

    At least it’s not going to get sold here, or on Mastodon I guess, but it’s not like the data couldn’t get scraped by an unethical actor, right? 🤔

    • Omniraptor
      50·
      8 months ago

      At least this way they’ll have to work to scrape it instead of getting it for “free”

    • yessikg
      10·
      8 months ago

      At least the fediverse admins are trying to stop AI and spammers, for those of you that don’t know Tumblr has a huge spam problem