Patreon announced on Thursday that it’s partnering with Cloudflare to block crawlers from stealing creators’ work to train AI models.
“I HAVE A KICKASS PRODUCT UPDATE FOR YOU ALL!” Jack Conte, the founder and CEO of Patreon, wrote in a post on Instagram with the superimposed text, “POV: you’re CEO of one of these fucking tech companies, so you do what you want.”
“Patreon has partnered with an internet infrastructure company called Cloudflare to block Al training crawlers from using the work you publish on your Patreon to train their Al models,” Conte wrote. “This is live and happening at the network level on all posts published on Patreon.”
They also took the right side in the Lego drama. Also my kid likes Jack Conte’s band with his wife, oh and there’s the whole “let’s creators make money without being stuck to overly broad TOS online” so I think Jack is putting up dubs left and right
They refuse to use the S?
Insane story. Great time to get into it as updates are happening rapidly.
A used lego reseller (not directly affiliated with the lego corporation) named Bricks and Minifigs stole $200,000 from a dying elderly man.
A youtuber named Reckless Ben got involved to try and help the family out. But the CEO of BAM called the police on him and lied to the police repeatedly, saying Ben was threatening to hurt him and threatening to burn the store down. He called police in Ben’s home state pretending to be Ben and made false bomb threats. He broke his own window and said Ben hired a sniper to try and assassinate him. This is barely the half of it. Ended up getting him arrested multiple times.
All on camera and 100% proven false, but the crazy thing is the CEO is Mormon, along with the entire police department (BAM is in Utah, which is essentially controlled by a Mormon mafia). So in all the bodycam footage released (that they were illegally withholding, but has all come out now) it’s completely plain as day that they’re all actively conspiring together to cover for their fellow Mormons.
Anyway, as part of their attempt to lock this innocent kid in jail for the rest of his life over literally nothing, they sent a legal order to Patreon demanding they shut down Ben’s page. To which the CEO of patreon publicly responded “we’re keeping his page up. If you don’t like it, sue us.”
I think coffeezilla found it was probably closer to $100,000 in value (the Lego collection), still insane chain of events and police corruption
The speculative value has gone back up again since coffeezilla’s vid, but it’s still a very wide range
What a highlight reel. I hope Ben defeats the magic underwear.
I agree, I remember when the pomplemoose guy made patreon, it was a great idea and I think he’s shepherded it pretty well