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Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal (9to5mac.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal::It’s being reported that a deal has been struck to allow an unnamed large AI company to use Reddit user...

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Those AI companies should love fediverse then. I mean, all data here is basically open for anyone to grab. Heck, they don't even need to grab the data, just run their own instance and the federation data will flood in on its own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This was my thought exactly. Shouldn’t there be a “no_ai.txt” on the servers somehow?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That would be about as effective as robots.txt, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Oh, don’t give them ideas please!