Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO

Great. Now all the AI bots will just be saying "This" and "came here to say that."

Well... We all knew that was coming. If you still have an account haven't done so, now's a good time to purge your account!

So they're cashing in by selling other people's conversations.

Yeah.

FYI: reddit orphans content. In other words your posts/comments are undeletable.

I found instances of such late last year by way of search results. I clicked a username to see more posts by that account. The only content on their profile page was a final deletion message about the API changes.

Their post history was discoverable by using "<username> site:reddit.com" on Google. All of their posts/comments still show up under their username instead of the normal [deleted]. Clicking the username takes you to their empty profile page.

So what we know from this now is that reddit has been saving original submissions. Whereas before their claim was that only the last edits are stored. Which is why the deletion scipts became a thing. People took it on good faith that we could delete our posts. At some point they stopped doing that. Or perhaps it was all a lie the whole time. Who knows.

Imagine AI mods trained by reddit mod models.

You know how artists can poison their images for AI... We need a way to poison content on Reddit

I am waiting for an LLM that trained on 4chan it would be pure gold.

There's nothing stopping anyone doing the same with lemmy posts though is there?

Alt title: Reddit looking to steal value from their millions of free users

This is why I deleted my posts. Also, 60 million is a jokingly lowball figure.

I wonder how reddit users feel about this. I wouldn't know, I DNS blocked the site months ago.

It's a power grab. They'll justify control over the training data with intellectual property which keeps it out of the hands of everyday people but they stole the "intellectual property" from us in the first place. Then they'll control the "means of generation".

I'm Jack's complete lack of surprise.

This is going to produce the saltiest AI the world has ever seen.

"Hey reddit ai , give me an idea how to balance my budget and pay my student debt, mate". "here ya go, I got a noose for you. Also I'm not your mate, dude".

" Hey reddit ai, draw for me a house with a genz family". Here ya go. " Hey reddit ai, why did you show me a pic of a highway ramp with homeless people?"

Just think, in 1000 years your body will be long dead but you'll be forced to live on as a poster! Death is not an option. 😌

what could go wrong with training your ai based on the posts of the most racist and misogynistic people on the internet?

I stopped posting there the moment they pulled the trigger on the API change. I used to like cruising LinuxQuestions and answering people, too.

I so want to see Reddit die. I browsed the site for the first time in 2007. I adored it. Now it is nothing but a cesspool of morons trying to find an echo chamber for their idiocy, led by king of the morons, Spez.

It’s time for better competition in this space and the Fediverse is one step toward that goal.

I wouldn't like having my Shitposts harvested.