Okay so to summarize, these are the services that are affected by Automattic selling a "firehose" of posts:
- sites hosted on *WordPress.com* which is Automattic's managed hosting service
- all of Tumblr
UPDATE 2:
Please see the following on the Jetpack situation:
https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/112022032236260432
https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/112022039397097790
https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/112022075281362635
UPDATE 3:
See the following regarding the WordPress.com Firehose
@packetcat FYI: the news post on Automattic.com that this post links to has been updated to clarify that sites using Jetpack are *not* included. https://automattic.com/2024/02/27/protecting-user-choice/
@michael @packetcat it’s not clear to me whether this applies just to the “select AI companies” they are “working directly with” or to the entire firehose being exposed by SocialGist, mentioned in the article
if the former, there is still nothing preventing AI scraping thru the latter method, it’s just not “Automattic directly cutting deals with AI companies for access to your posts”
