What do they need an AI for?

Use a different service, or encrypt your data before upload & share password separately. For anything remotely private, should be doing that already.

For chaotic good, upload LLM poison to fuck with the training data.

Direct consequence of this.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/31/bending-spoons-acquires-file-transfer-service-wetransfer/

After which they fired 75% of the employees. Now they are trying to milk a dying product.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bending-spoons-lay-off-75-185112177.html

That should be the default assumption for every service that hosts user content. Even if it explicitly says they won't use it for XYZ, they might change it at any time.

https://www.techdigest.tv/2025/07/wetransfer-clarifies-ai-stance-after-user-backlash.html "WeTransfer has confirmed it does not use customer files to train AI models, following a wave of criticism and confusion over recent changes to its terms of service"

The real irony is people on facebook moaning about their data being used...

Never even heard of it...

TBH the only reason I used their service was to send pirated stuff to friends. I didn't want to compromise my own/my primary cloud.

Nope. Fuck this company. Do not give in to this. This isn't about tech. It's about control. Do not give it up

Who uses WeTransfer in 2025?

I'd love to say I believe them in their backing down statement - but being cynical I really don't

I haven’t used them in a while, but they were always our backup when I was in TV news. Probably should make sure my colleagues know since I’m sure basically every TV station and production company would not want this.

simply encrypt the files before sending?