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

    • FaceDeer@kbin.social
      12·
      9 months ago

      Are you serious? We’re speaking in the Fediverse right now. It’s notable in its difference. Though instances have their own TOSes, so it’d be pretty trivial to set one up to harvest content for AI training as well.

      • eveninghere@beehaw.org
        1·
        9 months ago

        What I meant is that the data generally belong to the user on Fediverse, and your original comment ignored that.

        • FaceDeer@kbin.social
          2·
          9 months ago

          A user’s data still belongs to the user when they post it on sites like Reddit and such, too. The ToS doesn’t take ownership away from them, at least not in any case that I’ve seen. It just gives the site the license to use it as well.

          • eveninghere@beehaw.org
            1·
            9 months ago

            I mean, even if that’s tue, I don’t count it as “ownership” if they change the monetization scheme for what I wrote, without giving me a good chance to say what I get in return. Reddit even allegedly put back comments which users deleted.

            It’s near-impossible to delete all my own comments on Reddit, for example.

            • FaceDeer@kbin.social
              1·
              9 months ago

              It’s true, go ahead and read the ToS. It only grants a license to Reddit to use your content. It explicitly says:

              You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:

              And then goes on to enumerate what you’re licensing them to do with it. There’s also a section titled “Changes to these Terms” about how they can change the ToS going forward.