Tumblr's parent company is negotiating with OpenAI to sell user posts for AI training. Automattic plans to release a setting that allows users to opt out of data sharing with third parties. Automattic has crawled all public posts on Tumblr published from 2014 to 2023. Reddit has signed a $60 million annual agreement with Google to use user data for AI training. Shutterstock has signed with OpenAI.

Automattic negotiates with Midjourney and OpenAI to share user posts as training data. Automattic plans to allow users to opt out of sharing data with third parties. Other companies are also collaborating with AI firms to provide training data, leading to protests from creators.