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Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content::Reddit has reportedly made a deal with an unnamed AI company to allow access to its platform’s content for the purposes of AI model training.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

When spez took away API access, he basically shit on the social contract that offered a fair exchange of free access for the content we fed into reddit. After the API change, there were new terms: there is no contract. There are no terms. If you use reddit now, you are giving away everything you are to be indexed and mangled by statistics. You exist as free labor to statisticians and machines.

You are more than a few cents of bad memes.

I'm going to make the request in the AM that Lemmy should add robots.txt rules to disallow AI crawlers, to at least indicate we're not interested. We need legislation that tells scrapers what they can access.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

We need legislation that tells scrapers what they can access.

What do you hope that would achieve?

Because I can only see this as benefitting Reddit, Facebook, and the like, while screwing over smaller players.