Your old photos are worth money to AI

April 8, 2024

Your old photos are worth money to AI: Old public photo storage sites like Photobucket, Myspace and Friendster, which were huge in the 2000s, have a new revenue stream. AI companies will pay up to $1 per photo and $1 or more for videos to train their algorithms. With 13 billion pics on Photobucket, they stand to make $13 billion. Time to take a look at your old accounts and delete them.

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