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Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As you could have guessed, I am on the same page with one exception (or addition) - I want my content to be used for free for AI training. My objection to Reddit agreement is that they want to paywall information needed for future progress.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Fortunately they may not really be able to. Reddit's comments and submissions are available here, and since this includes deleted content as well as the stuff that users have later edited away with scripts it may even be a better resource than what Reddit is offering itself. You'd need to train your AI in a legally permissive environment, of course, but there's places like that around the world and this is actually something that would advantage the "little guys" since they aren't as easy to target.