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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

“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 9 months ago

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

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