Tumblr will now sell their users' data to AI companies. Get ready for woke bots

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[–]xoenix 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

If AI companies were building cars, this might be like putting sugar in the gas tank.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sugar does not dissolve in gasoline. It will be ignored by the fuel system and the engine and get burned up if it ever makes it to the pistons.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm genuinely surprised to see that Tumblr is still shambling along somehow. I would have thought that their ill-fated porn ban and the subsequent exodus of users and content would have been it for them.

[–]xoenix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe investors were data hoarders in it for the long game.

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it's still definitely a much better way of posting, finding, displaying, and sharing art and medium-long-form writing (or pictures of T&A) than the fucking timeline style of Twitter which "railroads" everything ("you like that picture you're looking at? well I'm just gonna zip right back to the top of the TL for no reason! good luck scrolling through 30 pages of new shit!") and cuts off search results at like 30

still regret its gratuitous suicide since there's no "art site" around any more and it's another Middle Internet Ages site gone; the whole "sophomores whose politics is lynch all right-handed people" crew just moved easily to Twitter, showing it wasn't 2010s Tumblr itself that was the problem

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You write that like the woke bots aren't already here.

[–]LtGreenCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Doesn't matter. The cat's out of the bag and it's not going back in. Laws won't do shit. People will continue to use whatever they want as training data. And it will be impossible to prove that any single piece of work, copyrighted or otherwise, was used to train an AI, because all of that data gets diffused inside a blackbox abyss of a neural network full of billions of inextricable nodes and parameters.

Sorry there is no going back from this. Anything you put out there can and probably will be used to train an AI and you won't ever see a dime. The best you can do at this point is pray for a swift Terminator or Matrix kind of situation.

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Jokes on you, Stumbler. I just point and laugh at posts, but have never had an account.