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WordPress and Tumblr Plan to Sell User Content to AI Companies (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 66 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Are you sure your clients aren't AI also

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    there is no self hosted squarespace

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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