Automattic is working on a business deal with Midjourney and OpenAI and has already prepared an initial batch of content to feed their models. An unnamed internal...
  • Deceptichum@kbin.social
    1·
    8 months ago

    No.

    I believe the hosts aren’t running this place to sell our data. A 3rd party might be scrapping the data, but that is irrelevant.

    • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 months ago

      Why would you believe that? Outside of lemmy.world which has semi-corporate backing can you verify who has your data?

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
        2·
        8 months ago

        Anyone can get my data, it’s an open system where my data is sent to every single Fediverse server that is listening. That is irrelevant.

        The point is that people (instance hosts, FOSS developers, etc) can create things for people to use for free without the user being a product.

        Altruism exists, not everything is corporate greed where I am a product to generate revenue for the people offering it.