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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)

submitted 9 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well that sucks. I've always had a lingering respect for Mullenweg because I think Wordpress.com is a good service, I really like Simplenote, and I thought that Automattic taking over Tumblr could not make stuff worse after the service being gelded by the porn-haters.

But his latest antics on moderation at Tumblr and now this (although he's hardly alone, Reddit is also gonna sell its user's contents to the AI mills) really showed his true face.

(I'll never forget laughing at him for losing tens of thousands worth of Leica gear in a lost/stolen luggage incident many years back)

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

tens of thousands worth of Leica gear

of course he’s one of those

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago

Well his tag is "photomatt" and AFAIK he was pretty involved in digital photography when that was the cool thing to be doing.

I found the post, from 2008: https://ma.tt/2008/05/dont-check-your-valuables/

All very expensive at the time, especially the Noctilux!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago

oh come on, don't say you wouldn't