Sitting on a possible AI-training gold mine Unlike its mid-2000s photo-hosting peers Flickr and Webshots, Photobucket hasn't deleted people's old photos. (Webshots shut down in 2012. Flickr moved ...

Photobucket was popular in the early days of the social internet. You might still have an account. Its CEO told BI that Photobucket could soon license photos stored on its service to train AI.

Photobucket, the photo-storage site once owned by Myspace, is planning to license user photos to AI companies, which would use the images to train their datasets. CEO Ted Leonard said photos ...