#between this and the layoffs creative fields have become so precarious its a joke

[bunabi]

While I could be wrong, I read the staff announcement as meaning, tu/mblr will ("try to") stop third party AI scraping, except their partners: who are permitted to do so from blogs that don't opt out. If that helps.

That's why I'm waiting to see if they put out more information but honestly no it doesn't help :(

This isn't protection, this isn't prevention, this is the equivalent of putting a DNI banner on a post

This relies on trust, honor, and good faith to work; its doomed to fail from jump just like every other site that's implemented the same thing

This feels — to me — like a rushjob for plausible deniability

If they really cared so much about users they would divest from this nonsense because throwing folks to the wolves with a toy knife <<<<< keeping them out of the World Famous Human-Eating Wolf Enclosure to start with