Unfortunately, Superhive decided to sell their creator’s work to AI training companies.
Burried in a generic email about holiday sales that few will read is a paragraph about how you can opt out of bulk AI training set orders. Forcing users to opt out of new features is a shady tactic used by many major companies whose goal is to have as little people as possible opting out. Of course, they’re still legally required to notify you so they bury that information deep in settings and TOS update emails.
It’s disappointing how a company that makes money by selling products created by their users would turn on them and sell those same products to competitors whose goal is replacing us. Even with the “Opt Out” button, you can’t opt out of only ML dataset bulk purchases but rather opt out of enterprises seeing your product at all. The purpose of this is, of course, to discourage you from opting out in fear of losing potential revenue.
If you’re a creator, don’t forget to opt out and spread the message to others who may not have read the email.
That’s a shame; but based on what AI companies seem to do and their scummy practices, I would have thought most would train on data even if the user opted out of AI training.
They’ve been going down the toilet for quite some time now, the whole kerfuffle with subscriptions, their disastrous rebranding, selling AI products and AI generated slop, Jonathan and the other people at SuperHive have made it abundantly clear what their priorities are. The point of SuperHive is to promote AI in Blender and make as much money as possible. Things that used to matter, like customer support or quality control, have not mattered in a long time. Having seen this many times, my guess is that soon they will sell to private equity, all the original staff will get a nice hefty paycheck, and then it will be stripped for parts and destroyed
Hey all, the only change we’ve made is to make it easier for you to more explicitly opt out of any enterprise deals. Enterprise companies have been approaching us for years, long before AI become the hot topic. The vast majority of deals have nothing to do with AI, while yes, some are AI-related. Typically companies approach us with interest in a specific product or categories they are interested in.
Most of these deals are for bulk quantities of a given product.
When companies approach us we tackle them on a case by case basis and work directly with the creators involved, only moving forward if the creators want to. It’s their product(s), not ours.
We only facilitate enterprise sales with creator consent, particularly when it involves AI.
Now it’s just a lot easier for you to say no up front.
Yeah, that’s what they all say. Here’s some fun quotes from some recent terms of service changes like yours.
Google:
“Connecting your apps is entirely opt-in. Ads will continue to be relevant to things like your query, the context of the response and your interests. Ads will not be based directly on your Gmail inbox or Photos library, and as always, sensitive information will not be used to tailor ads.”
Here’s one from the recent Meta lawsuit where they’ve been fined $25 billion:
“At its core, this lawsuit seeks to impose a tax on speech to enforce new rules for what people can say online,” Meta’s spokesperson said. “We are confident we will prevail on appeal. In the meantime, Meta will continue to build a safe and free platform to connect millions of Americans, grow small businesses, and help the country maintain its competitive edge.”
How kind of these companies caught with their hands in the cookie jar to assure us that they only have the best possible interest of their customers at heart! Wonderful of you to come along after losing all your credibility with the subscriptions and assure us all that, no, we’re all wrong, SuperHive is actually one of those good companies that loves and cares about their customers.
I’ve lived through a lot of sneaky ToS updates. Your response is a boilerplate PR response.
Regardless of this tbh, the amount of slop, outright scam addons I see on SuperHive is ridiculous. That’s enough to make sure I never scroll addons anymore.
