From 81db2f873bd16097249c793b892a8f0d11e0bde0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cory Dransfeldt Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:51:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] chore: post --- ...the-time-to-own-and-host-your-own-content.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/posts/2024/nows-the-time-to-own-and-host-your-own-content.md diff --git a/src/posts/2024/nows-the-time-to-own-and-host-your-own-content.md b/src/posts/2024/nows-the-time-to-own-and-host-your-own-content.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6b0b480a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/posts/2024/nows-the-time-to-own-and-host-your-own-content.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +date: '2024-02-28' +title: "Now's the time to own and host your own content" +description: "We've seen Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Reddit, Automattic, Mozilla — name a company — integrate AI that continues to be trained on public data with or without creator consent." +tags: ['development', 'tech', 'social media', 'AI'] +--- +We've seen Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Reddit, Automattic, Mozilla — name a company — integrate AI that continues to be trained on public data with or without creator consent. + +Now, more than ever, it's critical to look to open platforms where you can host and control your own content and adopt a defensible position wherein you seek to deny access to all the myriad crawlers used by AI companies. + +Who knows which platform will adopt a dubious AI implementation to bolster flagging profits next, all at the expense of their users. + +Build a site or, if you're a developer, contribute to tools that make building a site easier. Share open links, adopt open platforms and eschew companies looking to profit from your data without your consent.[^1] + +Companies aren't building products that provide value to their users anymore. They're building products that convince investors they can grow forever and they're doing so at their users' expense. + +[^1]: *Any* adoption of this should be opt in, not opt out (here's looking at you Tumblr/Automattic). \ No newline at end of file