Why would a row be more than one pin? That's not how computering works.

And yeah, when you give a company license to do whatever they want with your data, "whatever they want" includes AI.

I mean, fuck Pinterest, but this isn't news.

A row is just an entry in a database, I have no idea why you would assume each one represents 4-6. It's already bad enough, you don't need to misinform to make it appear worse, you'll only lose credibility.

If they were publicly available pins, and users agreed to the license that gave them permission to use their data, then they can do that.

I think the broader issue is people being acclimated to permissive licenses, and not having privacy as a default

Are there any good alternatives for pintrest?

Isn´t Pinterest the site nobody visits anymore because it's overrun with AI slop? I think it's dead.

Nice to know that I was unknowingly contributing to AI training every time I saved an image I appreciated back in the 2010s, too. At least I put the wrong birth date on my account, I think.

I’m no longer surprised by this shit, but I’m never any less angry. Fuck these people.

¹ "ROWS" probably means database rows/records. Therefore I would assume one row = 1📍.

This post has triggered my outrage!

...because this is totally normal database stuff. Like, where's the meat? My phone could handle 500 million rows of data. Is that supposed to be a lot?

I'm not exaggerating about the phone part: A modern smartphone can handle an SQLite DB with billions of records (aka "ROWS", LOL).

So basically they’re admitting that they’re even breaking the copyright law? Man, there is just so much wrong with this. I knew Pinterest was bad, but I didn’t think it was that bad. Shame on Pinterest.

Hopefully it made the AI learn the difference between "it’s" and "its"

I guarantee you their license from inception has given them control and ownership of data you put on the platform in perpetuity

This is basically what everyone does and no one cares because it’s buried in a 50+ page tos/eula that changes every few months and apparently is binding if you simply click a button

The tv stuff is what everyone’s mad about right now but do you know how many photo kiosks and websites reserve the right to use the pictures you upload for printing? How many games and cell phone apps profile you? How many smart devices phone home with local WiFi ssds, usage patterns, etc?

Once they establish ownership they can exercise control pretty much however they want. Model training is just the new “this will be a cash cow somehow” fad and everyone with a massive dataset is looking to capitalize on it

We have let the advertising and data collection industry get completely out of control because the overwhelming majority of people are mindless consumers that don’t give a fuck

Pinterest's whole model is locking other people's content behind the walls of its own platform. It should've been illegal from the start.

could 1 mean row in the DB sense here which presumably would be 1:1 with Pins?