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Matt Mullenweg's face-heel turn completes: Wordpress and Tumblr text corpuses to be sold for LLM training (www.404media.co)
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just think: an AI trained on depressed social justice queers

wonder what Hive is making of Bluesky

"you took a perfectly good pocket calculator and gave it anxiety"

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

“When I’m back in May”

Matt Mullenweg responds to a link to the 404 article about tumblr and wordpress selling user content for ai training with "Please don't believe the hit piece article. I'll comment more when I'm back in May."

https://mastodon.social/@photomatt/112010162224861540

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 17 points 8 months ago

The sign of a great CEO is that sense of urgency.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"We're facing the biggest PR storm in our history, no hurry".

Where is he, btw? Rehab?

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

that's the fun part. He's been on "samattical" since beginning of Feb. Plenty of time for twitter harassment but this one will have to wait

https://web.archive.org/web/20240229125209/https://ma.tt/2024/02/samattical/

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Banning trans women on Tumblr who are mad at him for them being harassed through the platform: Important.

Feuding with said trans women on Twitter: Important.

Explaining their decision to sell the users data: Not important.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

And to add, admitting that Tumblr had an admin who charged for banning trans women: Important.

Explaining wtf that was all about: Not important.

He probably should be in rehab.

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 8 points 8 months ago

@gerikson @fasterandworse

Probably on a photography trip to some exotic and expensive place.