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WordPress and Tumblr Plan to Sell User Content to AI Companies (gizmodo.com)

submitted 10 months ago by RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm assuming this just relates to WordPress.com rather than the open-source WordPress.org but it's still a bummer. I've worked with the open source platform for over a dozen years and have started to kinda loathe what it's turned into but I'm not sure I'm yet at the point where I'm ready to migrate a bunch of sites to something else. This could be that push if they keep going down this road.

God, am I getting too old for this shit? I'm a pretty technical person but this AI nonsense is just relentless. I'm not philosophically against the idea of AI as like any tool it has the potential to better the world, but every tech company and their dog are going all in on using it for commercial bullshit that seems to provide very little value to society. Even fucking Mozilla is going in that direction.

[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's the new NFTs and Crypto but it's not blatantly a scam so the companies that skipped out on those sure as shit will be hoping onto AI

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mozilla seems more towards local and privacy preserving AI Dev, no? Both are really lacking in the space IMHO

Like I'm not interested in what the collective of digital knowledge looks like behind several corporate filters and giant rent seeking moat.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mozilla's business is sucking up to Google for that vendor money they spend to avoid litigation (and its not working).

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know about the funding problem, but what do you mean on the kitagation piece?

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Google gives Mozilla its money to appear that they aren't trying to corner the browser space with Chrome. If they win the argument in court they aren't monopolizing, they don't have to give Mozilla shit anymore.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

There's already several WordPress plugins to block out Generative AI. I expect the community to have a less than chipper attitude about this over Automattic.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don‘t really know what to say to cheer you up. Industrial revolutions are as important and exciting as they are painful, even dreadful to many. I’ve seen no signs of this one being different. There will be a lot of losers before we can expect wide spread benefits for society from it. The current working class will suffer great losses and will have to fight so another can reap the benefits later.