--- title: "Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report" url: https://daily.dev/posts/tumblr-s-owner-is-striking-deals-with-openai-and-midjourney-for-training-data-says-report-1b2rxbpye source_url: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/27/24084884/tumblr-midjourney-openai-training-data-deal-report type: article source: "The Verge" published: 2024-02-27T20:04:18.308Z updated: 2024-05-09T09:21:59.549Z tags: ["tech-news", "wordpress", "openai", "midjourney"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report **[The Verge](https://daily.dev/sources/theverge)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com is reportedly in talks with AI companies Midjourney and OpenAI to provide training data scraped from users' posts. This could potentially create a new revenue stream for the site and has raised concerns among the creative community. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news), [#wordpress](https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#midjourney](https://daily.dev/tags/midjourney) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/tumblr-s-owner-is-striking-deals-with-openai-and-midjourney-for-training-data-says-report-1b2rxbpye)