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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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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 9 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.