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   Brandon Kraft ❤️‍🔥🧡 (kraft@religious.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 10:00:42 JST Brandon Kraft ❤️‍🔥🧡

   @jimw Apologies for the radio silence. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I did not realize Firehose consumers had moved past social trend tracking and search engines getting notice of things to index. I’ve started discussions with the team regarding this and hope to announce something very soon, but didn’t want to leave this unresponded any longer than I already did.

   We are winding down the Firehose. All current consumers are slated to lose access by the end of the mth.

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     Greg Pak (gregpak@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 10:00:41 JST Greg Pak

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     @kraft @jimw Thank you for being open about this, Brandon. Can you elaborate a bit - does this mean that up until now, sites built with the Wordpress.org installation but running Jetpack have had their posts fed into AI companies' databanks via this firehose? Will we be notified which companies took our data? Will our data be deleted when the firehose closes? This is deeply concerning.

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     Brandon Kraft ❤️‍🔥🧡 (kraft@religious.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 10:00:41 JST Brandon Kraft ❤️‍🔥🧡

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     • Greg Pak

     @gregpak @jimw I'm awaiting finalization of the words, but we've audited and confirmed that LLMs did not get Jetpack data for training. It is part of our contract with all Firehose consumers that they can not redistribute to others without our permission (including Socialgist) and we do not grant access to companies for model training. AI is all the buzz so the AI we'd okay is for "trend analysis" or sentiment analysis things, that is a valid use (same since the feature launched).