Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Deborah Edwards-Oñoro enjoys birding, gardening, taking photos, reading, and watching tennis. She's retired from a 25+ year career in web design, usability, and accessibility.

WordPress.com, AI Training, and User Control

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Screenshot of WordPress.com about page highlighting: At WordPress.com, our mission is to democratize publishing and eCommerce one website at a time. We’re a hosted version of the open source software, WordPress. Because when you have the freedom to create, express yourself, and earn money online, the impossible becomes business as usual.

Rumors about Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com and Tumblr, making deals with AI (Artificial Intelligence) companies to provide training data scraped from users’ posts was in the news yesterday as 404Media and The Verge reported possible deals.

As you might imagine, many WordPress users were worried about what the rumors might mean for their content and websites.

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Photo of the Week: University of Michigan Campus Farm

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Brown wooden arches sport a a weathered archway created from rusted farming and gardening tools over the path leading to the straw-bale building in the background.

Turn the corner from the west parking lot at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and you’ll find the archway sculpture at the entrance to the University of Michigan Campus Farm in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was a cold winter day when I stopped by the gardens, not much activity during late winter in Michigan. But I’m… Continue reading Photo of the Week: University of Michigan Campus Farm

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