Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content
Reddit’s reported AI deal comes as it prepares to go public.
I thought I would miss reddit.
I was wrong.
Quitting a platform is always easier than you think it will be.
YouTube is the only platform that I don't think I'll be able to quit any time soon. Hosting video on that kind of scale requires insane amounts of capitol, and P2P isn't reliable enough, and I say this as someone who has streamed torrents before and has tried out PeerTube.
Also even if there was an alternative, having an alternative for creator monitization is even more difficult. LBRY and D-Tube tried to do it with cryptocurrency, but both of those projects seem to have fizzled out (and I think one is flooded with fascists nowadays).
I wish I didn't make half my money from commissions set up through reddit.
Ofc it does.
Glad I left that place months ago. What a sewer.
I thought I might miss it, but I don't. At all.
Enshitification Phase 2.
Phase 4
Arguably, anyone can scrape lemmy for free. Of course, it's illegal, unless explicitly allowed by the license of the respective instance.
It's sad for reddit though that they could have the option to protect their users from scraping, since they are big enough to enforce their rights. But yeah, profits.
Can I sue them btw to pay me for whatever value my comments and posts have created over there?
Scraping lemmy is as easy as setting up a server advertising it on Activitypub and all the data will be sent straight to you.
There are GreaseMonkey/ViolentMonkey scripts that work fine as well.
I still use Reddit infrequently, and delete what few comments I leave after a couple days using those scripts.
Lol, the AI is just going to emit nonsense like "holy hell", "thanks for the gold, kind stranger", "I too choose this guy's wife"
I HAVE AN IDEA! What about... put the subreddits on private again? /s
Questin is, is data of private subs still sold? Likely it is.
If Reddit want it, yes. That's why that protest was one of the worst attempts of making noise on internet what I ever seen.
The AI training clause is the least of my concerns with reddit these days.
Man that reminds me that I haven't deleted all my posts and comments yet! Anyone got a good program for that?