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WordPress and Tumblr Plan to Sell User Content to AI Companies (gizmodo.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Are you sure your clients aren't AI also

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dead internet theory in action

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

It was half dead and suicidal even before AI

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

there is no self hosted squarespace

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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.