Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models

Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do. It's frankly selfish. Having an AI get training on my old comments costs me nothing and it results in the development of useful AI tools. Trying to sabotage that is petty and pointless. It's not like you could somehow collect the fraction of a pittance that you think you're owed retroactively. I never commented on Reddit thinking "awesome, I'm going to make bank on the content I'm generating here."

  People complain about the capitalist mindset of the world and then they do this. Sigh.

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  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Defending giant corporations profiting off of uncompensated individuals, while criticizing anyone who doesn’t want to provide free labor to said corporations, is a disgusting take. Are you a CEO?

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    • liquidparasyte@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Expecting FaceDeer to not glaze AI is like expecting the sun to not rise.

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      • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh is that what their crusade is? I was wondering why their take was so stupid

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The more accessible training data there is the easier it is for new AI projects to enter the field less dominant those "giant corporations" become.

      The free labour was already freely given. If someone doesn't want to have shitposted on Reddit for free then maybe they shouldn't have shitposted on Reddit for free.

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      • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “if you didn’t want me to steal your intellectual property, you shouldn’t have thought of it in the first place”

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  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had an 11 year old account that I deleted all my old comments and posts from because of the API debacle. Does that make me selfish that I felt like Reddit wasn’t holding up its end of the unwritten agreement?

    Reddit doesn’t deserve my content anymore than I deserve access from the third party API.

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you did it over the API debacle then you're not one of the people I'm talking about here. This is about people deleting their content to prevent it from being used to train AIs.

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      • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you not remember the reason why the API debacle happened in the first place was to prepare for this moment?

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  • Zellith@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Selfish? Perhaps you forget why people deleted their content in the first place.

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do you think this thread is about?

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  • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s their comment to do with as they see fit. I can’t get mad at them for wanting to erase their presence on a site they don’t use anymore.

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And I'm free to judge them however I wish for their actions and intent.

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  • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How is not wanting capitalist companies to profit off of your content not aligned with complaining about the capitalist mindset of the world? Wtf lol.

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It's the insistence that everything that people do must be compensated with money. People have spent years posting on Reddit for fun, without any thought to being paid for it, and now all of a sudden someone else is making some money so they're demanding that they should get their slice. And doing what they can to wreck their earlier efforts when they don't.

      How does Reddit making some money licensing this stuff harm those of us who contributed to it? Is there any problem aside from "I wanna get paid!"?

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      • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why do you think it’s about wanting a slice? They posted on Reddit with no expectation of profit. But they don’t want others to profit off it either. It’s not that complicated.

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For me it’s a privacy matter. Going through old posts (whether human or machine learning) can nor be used for anything good.

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  • Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about people who just think “A.I.” Is dog shit and chat bots are a dumb obsession steering the industry in the wrong direction due to hype and money?

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about them? I don't see why they'd care what AI companies are doing in that case. They'd assume they were just wasting money on this stuff.

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