joel, 2 months ago

@damon what the guy above said, WordPress the software you can self host should be fine

sass, 2 months ago

@joel @damon Even if non .com WP instances are fine, will people still want to support a project or rely on a project so beholden to AI overlords 💀?

joel, 2 months ago

@sass @damon just because they share the name doesn't mean they're related.

WordPress is open source, and a fine piece of software on its own. Yes it might be less used because of ignorance, but people, and I mean regular people who don't know the difference between both, also don't know what is so bad about AI scraping user generated content in general anyway.

We in the fedi are more techy and geeky but most people don't really care

joel, 2 months ago

@sass @damon besides there are many WordPress content providers that will probably grow their user base now that WordPress.com went this route. It's a win for regular WordPress and competition in the space

joel, 2 months ago

@sass @damon besides there are many WordPress hosting providers that will probably grow their user base now that WordPress.com went this route. It's a win for regular WordPress and competition in the space

sass, 2 months ago

@joel @damon But they are related, even if yes technically .com turning this on doesnt affect WP (non .com) itself. So .com emitting this level of sleaze will have a trickle down reputation-wise. It has already begun.

There's lots of reasons to not want AI to scrape your content (I won't cover, but are an internet search away), at minimum these companies should offer an opt-out before they go on scraping, but apparently it’s scrape-now-then-ask-for-forgiveness/opt-out.