Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI.

red_pigeon , 4 months ago

I stopped using reddit after they dropped the bomb on the devs and I'm not a fan of the company.

I understand the hatred towards them, but this is definitely expected from a company like reddit, and any other social media for that matter. As users we must be aware that we don't own the content in their platform.

I wouldn't be surprised if the same story comes from Instagram tomorrow, though I suppose there will be a bigger outcry then.

Usul_00_ , 4 months ago

Don't know if it was against usage terms, but I have been able to get chatgpt answers written 'in the style of' various subreddits since the initial release (or perhaps the second release)

jivandabeast , 4 months ago

Honestly over the last year since the great migration, the discussions on lemmy have really grown and matured to the point where i don't really see the value of reddit anymore

Kedly , 4 months ago

For me there's still value in the niche communities like r/rimworld and the like, but for everything else I'm firmly on Lemmy now

vladmech , 4 months ago

The only use I have for Reddit anymore is for super niche information. For example we were planning to go to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom today but it's going to rain this afternoon. I checked their site and it said they were open 11-6, my BIL checked their app and at 11:30 it said they were currently closed. Found a Reddit post from someone confirming the park was closed for the weekend, and we didn't waste a trip up. (as an extra annoying aside, apparently this information was posted on Six Flag's Instagram page, because expecting a huge company to maintain a website is I guess just too much when they can offload it to social media.)

crimroy , 4 months ago

The real value of reddit for me lies in its cache of information contained in answers to questions from over the years. Whenever I'm looking online for a solution to a problem I'm trying to solve I'll eventually add "reddit" to the search and I almost always find the answer that way.

COASTER1921 , 4 months ago

If they hadn't applied the same charges to legitimate 3rd party applications they could still do this and have avoided the massive community backlash.

Considering their horrible track record with advertising and selling Reddit premium this should be the single best way for them to finally monetize their platform. They didn't need to destroy what little credibility they had remaining to their users to get to this point, but for whatever reason they did.

Fake4000 OP , 4 months ago

What I don’t understand is that they had the option of providing a free service to all third party apps provided there was no commercial use.

They could have easily asked for a cut from any AI company using their data for training.

COASTER1921 , 4 months ago

Not only did they have the option, as I understand it the API was even configured as such since all requests from an app shared the same API key. They're basically whitelisting like this now but only for the accessibility oriented 3rd party apps.

Bleach7297 , 4 months ago

If you aren't the customer, you are the product. Congrats on being monetized and kinda sorta immortalized as a series of weights.

DudeImMacGyver , 4 months ago

I am now a poorly copied and totally underwhelming digital god! MUAHAHAHA-oh wait...

bbkpr , 4 months ago

Good, so let's train crappy AI on posts by crappier AI, which was trained by posts from even crappier AI before it.

Morcyphr , 4 months ago

Who cares? Fuck reddit. Half the content is bots anyway. So, bots stealing content to train AI to make content, which the bots will steal and repost. Circle of death for reddit. Good luck with that IPO.

Dkarma , 4 months ago

AI training on bot content? What could go wrong??

aesthelete , 4 months ago

Went ahead and started running redacted on my old account.

Nothing says we're just another brick in the wall like writing posts that wind up being used to train a plagiaristic corporate unemployment machine.

platypus_plumba , 4 months ago

What prevents people from training a model with Lemmy's data?

Duamerthrax , 4 months ago

Nothing, but the lemmy admins can't be the only one's profiting from it. Reddit killed 3rd apps and academic research so they could be the sole profiteers of the user data.

Postreader2814 , 4 months ago

That post reminded me that lemmee exists. Accounts didn't work that great when I first got here but I made one today and got verified. Logged out of Reddit for the last time and replaced my comments. Eff that place right in it's a-hole. Good riddance.