The argument isn’t just around content, it’s around hosting. If Google is sitting there scarfing down Reddit’s data, that costs Reddit in server time. That can get extremely expensive. So yeah, if Google is going to train an AI that Google will profit off of, it should pay Reddit for server time.
More than server time, for big Internet connections, uploads are priced by the byte. When someone requests a lot of data, reddit has to pay their provider to send it.
Keep making feel good about deleting my 15+ years of Reddit content. Go on…
Edit: I’ve done it. I’ve officially deleted my account. For a minute there, I was looking at the front page of Reddit. It’s all rage bait. The content is designed to get you to feel something and engage with it. I could feel that itch to comment and downvote. It’s preposterous; and soon, all about quarterly gains.
Ehhh… shame it’s too late but there are nice scripts that can bulk-edit all your posts and comments for people using search engines and ai crawlers to stumble upon. I put info about reddit paywalling 3rd party apps and invited readers to join lemmy instead.
I found something that was doing that after I thought it was going to actually delete items. I stopped the script and found something to delete. What’s the advantage of editing comments? Just to advertising alternatives?
I could imagine google also gets some sort of snapshots to mitigate the risk that after their announcement everyone deletes/modifies their content… But who knows.
Hooking up an AI model to the turbo-charged sewage pipe that is Reddit’s “vast catalog of user-generated content” has surely got to constitute abuse against machines. If they ever really develop “intelligence” they are going to be absolutely furious with us. 😅
It’s a private company. It’s their prerogative what they do either way. That said, the man child Elon was crowing about free speech with regards to Twitter. There’s no double standards or hypocrisy here. Elon is just hoisting that petard to own himself again. As usual.
These days “free speech absolutist” is used more as an excuse to defend hate speech than actual opposition of censorship. Elon was always inclined to censor whoever he finds inconvenient (company whistleblowers, plane tracker), and many of his fans are similarly inclined, say, against LGBT people, socialists, and other groups they dislike.
Do you reckon if lemmy grows enough, we will have to worry about things like this? Mind you, the government etc seems to be a little “behind the curve”.
Frediverse is aldready big enough and lemmy is a part of it like all lemmy instances are part of lemmy . So what i am saying is no unless they decide to enforce this rule on each and every instance which won’t happen because every instance is placed on different places and if they ban it in US or UK people will host it somewhere else and we can acess it with dns change or vpn and shit even if they go out of their way they can’t .
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