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Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
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Good, hopefully it’ll make AI that is slightly less toxic than the rest of the internet.
It always baffles me that people don’t want their content represented in an AI - every word you write that gets indexed is a vote for how future AI will behave.
Wait, do you actually want those companies to make even more money from your data, and want these environmentally disastrous "bullshit generators" to keep on going? I'm not saying stopping them is realistically possible, but if I had to choose, I'd greatly prefer a world without AI.
You cannot choose a world without AI. They will get built regardless of what you want.
With that in mind, the optimal (least bad) outcome is that your world views are represented in the dataset.