Your Data and AI Firms

You may see news reports of our parent company, Automattic, striking deals to sell data from WordPress.com and Tumblr to OpenAI and Midjourney. The original report appeared in 404 Media and was picked up by The Verge. 

I want to assure WordPress VIP customers that your data has not been shared as part of any deal that Automattic may have negotiated and we will never share your data without explicit consent.

And while we’re on the topic of AI crawlers and your content – while it is not possible to prevent all AI crawlers, you can signal to reputable organizations that you do not want your content crawled. We have code examples for blocking AI crawlers in our documentation.

Please do reach out directly – I’m ng@automattic.com – if I can help in any way. Thank you for your continued partnership.