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Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I bet they can scrape Lemmy content for free then. There are no legal mechanisms to prevent them from doing so.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I rather my data I've chosen to make public is free and accessible to all, than it being sold to the highest bidder.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    With that being said, I am not pleased that my content is packaged into a proprietary AI, and sold for money.

    I think there are ways to opt-out of AI collection, at least for big companies. I wonder if it is implemented in Lemmy-UI and/or terms and conditions.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes but i think reddit is many times more valuable than Lemmy. I just haven't found the same level of very specific subreddits that have lots and lots of activity. Most of the traffic here is memes, politics, news and Linux lovin. On reddit if I needed to find a community about my local town it's no problem and there are tens or hundreds of daily posts. The same community does exist on Lemmy but the last post was 6 months ago.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Well there's copyright law. There's already lawsuits happening so we'll have to see how this shakes out.

    But even if the AI companies lose the lawsuits, I think it's likely they'll still have access to content where the T&C of the site says they're allowed to sell the data.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hm but don't you automatically own the stuff you create yourself, as long as you don't consent to giving it away? I don't know the terms and conditions of my Lemmy instance though.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When was the last time anyone read the T&Cs of a social media website?

    They basically all have a clause to the effect that you grant them a permanent, irrevocable license do whatever they want with anything you post.

    You might still own the copyright to any content you produce, but by posting you’re granting them permission to do basically anything with it, including reselling it.

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