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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FUCK REDDIT! FUCK U/SPEZ! The Red-exit shall endure, VIVA LA LEMMY!!
I bet the fuckers will use “deleted” data, too
what about edited?
Deleted? You mean made unscrapeable. It’s exclusive to Reddit licensees.
Why is there nothing on reddit about this lol
I’d be surprised if there wasn’t, I don’t think Spez and his cohorts are competent enough to completely suppress all information about it site wide.
Can someone more savvy explain why they couldn’t also scrape what we all say here?
They can and do, but they want the training models to come from highly moderated sources otherwise every AI chatbot would be spewing the most racist parts of 4chan because people would train it that way as a joke.
If you let AI roam freely across the internet, it would only learn porn, sailor moon, dragon Ball z, and nazi germany.
Ah yes, the Microsoft Tay conundrum.
Microsoft Bing AI image generator made some really weird porn before they realized what it was being used for…
Anything can, the difference is reddit holds the exclusive rights to user comments on their site, and they’ve chosen to sell it.
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.
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.
They say it’s $60 million on an annualized basis. I wonder who’d pay that, given that you can probably scrape it for free.
Maybe it’s the AI act in the EU. That might cause trouble in that regard. The US is seeing a lot of rent-seeker PR, too, of course. That might cause some to hedge their bets.
Maybe some people had not realized that yet, but limiting fair use does not just benefit the traditional media corporations but also the likes of Reddit, Facebook, Apple, etc. Making “robots.txt” legally binding would only benefit the tech companies.
