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Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)
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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The difference is that Lemmy admins across the fediverse aren’t making the user experience worse so they can sell the data to corporations for LLM training

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee -4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So it's really that the user experience is getting worse. Feeding ai has nothing to do with it.

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

First of all, tacos are friends, not food..

Secondly, I think it’s more important what they did to achieve this goal, locking down the API behind a paywall was their way of creating value in their data. They knew then that it would be too expensive for independent developers to pay for but didn’t care. They knew the money would be coming AI data brokers.

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'd rather have AI companies have my data for free than reddshit gettong paid for it