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.
Continue reading WordPress.com, AI Training, and User Control
Here are a few stories, posts, and resources I’ve read, learned about, and enjoyed over the past month.
Hope you enjoy them, too!
Continue reading What I Found Interesting: February 7, 2024
Over the past few months, ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) bots have captured the attention of many people on the web. Whatever your thoughts on AI bots, you may want to take action on your own website to block ChatGPT from crawling, indexing, and using your website content and data. Thanks to Barry Schwartz’s… Continue reading Quick Tip: Block OpenAI from Using Content From Your WordPress Site