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.

Meta has acknowledged using posts from Facebook and Instagram users to train its new artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI. Meta AI is a conversational assistant that can respond to text queries and generate realistic images from text prompts. Some users have raised concerns about privacy and ethical issues, arguing that Meta did not obtain explicit consent to use their posts. Meta stated that it will continue to use public posts to improve Meta AI and other AI features.