This is why you should just use local or selfhosted services and encrypt everything you upload to someone else’s computer (any cloud).
You can’t trust capitalism not to enshittify and change the rules as they see fit. All your data belong to us.
If you don’t have a local setup and want to save your pictures safely I can recommend ente.io. It’s end-to-end encrypted, meaning your phone/tablet/pc encrypts your fotos before uploading. Without your key the data in the cloud is useless…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users’ photos to train AI models.
Joaquin Cuenca Abela, CEO of Freepik, hinted at the company’s possible plans for EyeEm, saying it would explore how to bring more AI into the equation for creators on the platform.
Though EyeEm did offer an opt-out procedure of sorts, any photographer who missed the announcement would have lost the right to dictate how their photos were to be used going forward.
Given that EyeEm’s status as a popular Instagram alternative had significantly declined over the years, many photographers may have forgotten they had ever used it in the first place.
Requests for comment sent to EyeEm weren’t immediately confirmed, but given this countdown had a 30-day deadline, we’ve opted to publish before hearing back.
The federated platform, Pixelfed, which runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers Mastodon, is capitalizing on the EyeEm situation to attract users.
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