Reddit signs $60M contract allowing AI company to train its models on the social media platform's content

Remember the whole "if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product"?

It wasn't enough to turn you into a product. Now they also want to turn you into a resource. Farming your comments and posts to feed to an AI model.

What an economy we've built.

That's why I'm on Lemmy. At least when they train AI on my posts here it's not legitimized by some contract.

That AI is going to get really racist, really fast, judging by the muck we all saw daily on Reddit.

Damn just 60 mil??

And that's why I deleted all my posts and comments before deleting my account. Sure, they could probably go back and restore it if they wanted but, so far, they haven't.

Glad I landed here on Lemmy.

Just in time to make new AI generated shitposts with AI generated replies & pump up those numbers for the IPO.

Can't wait to read a post about how a novice AI finds it hard to animate human hands and some other AI suggest studying hentai porn to get the finger/tentacles movements just right. And ofc lots of ads. From AIs, to AIs, by AIs, for AIs.

Trained on 99% reposts

We all knew it was coming, but it's still disappointing

Funny, I don't see anyone saying the AI companies have free right to Reddit's content.

$60m doesn't seem like that much in an era where twitter could (have been) sold for $40b.

so the API thing was over nothing? brilliant

Add the bot problem to it and you'll get garbage in, garbage out

We did it reddit, we trained an AI to be the pure embodiment of cringe.

Lol, so they're going to be training their AI on... AI generated content? The uptick in that shit on reddit has made it more annoying than usual.

That and all the confidently incorrect shit on the site... Not to mention the constant in-jokes. I'm just imagining a chatbot responding to something about how to deal with grief with "I also choose this man's dead wife!"

Can't see how this could possibly go wrong.

Got to get my data deleted quick.

They are gonna love it when their chatbot also chooses that man's dead wife.

Sounds like it's time for me to actually log back in and delete all my old posts. I've been putting that off for too long.

Dumb question for the Lemmy lawyers, if enough redditors joined could a class action lawsuit be filed to be paid for their content... Or is that so outside of the TOS that it's not worth considering?

I just spent a while today deleting all my posts and comments. At this point they'll probably have plenty of copies of it, but at least the content is not up for them anymore.

Just trying to see if I can survive without an account there (the "forum fediverse", if that makes sense, is getting better and better) and then it'll go to the same place my Twitter and Facebook handles went a while ago.

Would users licensing their comments and posts help?

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