Other social platforms like Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram are also making similar deals. Reddit licenses its data to Google for $60 million a year, while Facebook and Instagram use data for Meta's own internal AI tools. This has sparked controversy among users who feel uncomfortable about their personal content being used to train AI.
Key takeaways:
- Auttomatic, the company that owns WordPress and Tumblr, is reportedly making a deal to provide data from their sites to help train OpenAI and Midjourney.
- Auttomatic's sites currently block AI crawlers, but they plan to start sharing data with AI companies, offering an opt-out for users who do not wish to participate.
- Internal Auttomatic employee messages revealed that engineers made mistakes while compiling posts, including content from deleted or suspended blogs, private posts, and content marked NSFW or "mature".
- Other social platforms like Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram are also using user-generated content to train AI, which has sparked controversy among users who feel uncomfortable about their personal content being used in this way.