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Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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Very glad I overwrote all of my comments with random words before deleting my account. They won’t be profiting off of me anymore.
Instead you're posting to the Fediverse, which is even more open for use by third parties.
Yea, but it'll be open forever, nobody can turn off an app overnight and profit from it.
Right. But my point is that they can profit from it. The issue lots of folks seem to be having is "how dare Reddit make money using something I did!", and that issue is even worse for the Fediverse since lots of companies can be doing it.
And what value is a commodity that is available to everyone?
I don't disagree with your point but I'm sure it couldn't be sold for as much as when it's a limited resource.
The value comes from the work that can be done with it. If you can train an AI off it then it's worth something.
It's one thing if you're processing and doing work with the data but Reddit will be getting $60,000,000 a year for simple having the data.
They can't do the work without the data, though.
Or rather, they can't do the work without the risk of Reddit raising a legal fuss that would cost them more than $60 million. The data itself can already be downloaded for free from various places.
Its obscure enough that I don’t think it’s being sought out by AI companies. The nature of federated instances should make it a bit more challenging to pull a complete data set too
Not so obscure that Meta isn't paying attention and planning for interoperation, and Meta is one of the biggest players in the AI development field.
A complete data set isn't required, just a comprehensive one.