• etrotta@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Out of all things to hate Reddit for, giving data to AI isn’t something fediverse users can really criticize it for, though making money from it perhaps.
    Remember: All data in federated platforms is available for free and likely already being compiled into datasets. Don’t be surprised if this post and its comments end up in GPT5 or 6 training data.

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      9 months ago

      The problem isn’t that AI is being trained on the data. The problem is that they locked down all third party data access so they could monetize our content. On a federated platform, everyone gets equal access and can do whatever they want with it.

      We sure can criticize them for that.

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      9 months ago

      After all the hue and cry I have seen over stuff like Threads and Bluesky federation I don’t imagine most people using the Fediverse have a particularly coherent philosophy on the matter.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      If they already, essentially, cut off API access then it’s not a big leap to limit access on the web to logged in users only and rate limit or ban accounts that behave like scrapers.

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        9 months ago

        That would matter more if it wasn’t trivial to make new accounts and very cheap to buy established ones.