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Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users' Data to Train AI Tools

Samantha Cole Samantha Cole
* Feb 27, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff
compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users' Data to Train AI Tools

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Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney
and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the
deals and internal documentation referring to the deals. 

The exact types of data from each platform going to each company are
not spelled out in documentation we've reviewed, but internal
communications reviewed by 404 Media make clear that deals between
Automattic, the platforms' parent company, and OpenAI and Midjourney
are imminent.

The internal documentation details a messy and controversial process
within Tumblr itself. One internal post made by Cyle Gage, a product
manager at Tumblr, states that a query made to prepare data for
OpenAI and Midjourney compiled a huge number of user posts that it
wasn't supposed to. It is not clear from Gage's post whether this
data has already been sent to OpenAI and Midjourney, or whether Gage
was detailing a process for scrubbing the data before it was to be
sent. 

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