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Tumblr's owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data

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• ChrisArchitect 3y ago
  Some more discussion earlier on a walled article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527588
• zrn900 3y ago
  That's what getting VC/investor money does to organizations that previously followed high ideals in open source. Automattic raised ~$150m around 2020. Now they are paying the price for letting the vultures in.
  • aitchnyu 3y ago
    Flashback to the days when Github was a successful bootstrapped company with 80 employees and everything changed when the fir.. VCs fed it money and now its training MS AI.
• Alifatisk 3y ago
  So first ClosedAi (OpenAi) had a deal with Reddit, and now this? Who's next?