It’s like the difference between volunteering and being forced to do community service.
Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 7 months agoYou are glad that you jumped to where AI companies can get the information for free, but are mad at Reddit for getting paid for it.
I can’t make any sense of this.
grue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
EatATaco@lemm.ee 7 months ago
In neither case are you forced to do anything so this doesn’t make any sense either.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The difference is that Lemmy admins across the fediverse aren’t making the user experience worse so they can sell the data to corporations for LLM training
EatATaco@lemm.ee 7 months ago
So it’s really that the user experience is getting worse. Feeding ai has nothing to do with it.
ultra@feddit.ro 7 months ago
I’d rather have AI companies have my data for free than reddshot gettong paid for it
tacofox@lemm.ee 7 months ago
First of all, tacos are friends, not food…
Secondly, I think it’s more important what they did to achieve this goal, locking down the API behind a paywall was their way of creating value in their data. They knew then that it would be too expensive for independent developers to pay for but didn’t care. They knew the money would be coming AI data brokers.