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

  •  jarfil   ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) 
    2•3 months ago

    No, and no, and no:

    • If a user wants to assign ownership to a company, that’s their right.
    • These companies DO NOT ask for ownership, they only license the content (ownership carries responsibilities, they don’t want those).
    • Whether a user wants to get paid or not, is again up to them (see the various OpenSource and CC licenses).
    •  eveninghere   ( @eveninghere@beehaw.org ) 
      2•3 months ago

      Hard disagree.

      • Companies don’t give you a good chance to prevent them from eroding your control on the data further.
      • Even if they technically disown the data, they’re doing even worse. They are de-facto doing anything they want without taking responsibility
      • Open source / CC licenses don’t apply to whatever user data people are talking about here