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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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[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 66 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I work in marketing, and every client I work with who has a WordPress website is using AI to write a lot of their content. This is going to lead to circularly trained AI for sure.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Are you sure your clients aren't AI also

[–] pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dead internet theory in action

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

It was half dead and suicidal even before AI

[–] NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

No way for me to know. My programming doesn't allow it.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

pretty sure this only applies to .com wordpress not self hosted

[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not sure, especially since they compare it to the Squareapace deal which I believe is for all sites built on the platform.

[–] Roldyclark@literature.cafe 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

there is no self hosted squarespace

[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My misunderstanding. But it looks like you need a .org to self-host WP, and like 99% of WP-built sites are .com as far as I've seen. I definitely do not know the technicals about different ways to host/build on the same platform, so I certainly defer to you there, but in any case, my bet is that any site/platform that gets scraped indiscriminately will lead to a lot of circular AI training.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are A LOT of self hosted Wordpress sites out there. Many of them you wouldn’t know unless told they were Wordpress (I believe both The Verge and TechCrunch use self hosted Wordpress). I myself have two self hosted Wordpress sites. Though I’ve been considering moving away from Wordpress for awhile now.

[–] Roldyclark@literature.cafe 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah there are def more self hosted than not. Wordpress.org is just the site for the open source project. Most hosting sites come with 1 click WordPress installs. I’ve built so many sites with it.