• RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The fact that Reddit thinks all that user-generated content is theirs and that they need to protect it from AI is really fucked up.

    Reddit itself produces nothing, they wouldn’t exist without the users.

    Absolutely pathetic that they may block search crawlers over that.

    • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It should be pretty simple: the user generated content are volunteered by the users for free on reddit, therefore the content should belong to the users.

      Same thing as with AI, if an AI model is trained with everyone’s data, then the AI model should be open and available to everyone.

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        1 year ago

        Correct and the issue with their API gating was “Well they obviously value my free content. WHERE’S MY CUT?!”

        Free API: I’m not going to complain. Paid API: Guess i’ll use Lemmy

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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        1 year ago

        There is added value in creating a web platform or an ML model too, but the value should be shared with the content makers.

    • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ru
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      1 year ago

      Reddit administration thinks the site is too big to fail. Lemmy isn’t a real competitor to them because the decentralization of federation means that joining an instance and trying to navigate the fediverse is a bit too complex for most people. The reason why massively populated social media sites took off is because people like having everything in one place where everyone else is.

      What I could see happening is a well-funded startup creates a fork of Lemmy that they use as the basis for their instance and they can customize and develop as they see fit. This instance would be accessible to everyone already on Lemmy, but they could offer one centralized alternative to Reddit where new users don’t have to think about what they need to do to join.

      I’m sure that if Lemmy picks up critical mass, it could lower the bar for most people to be willing to jump through the extra hoops. Ultimately federation solves the chicken and egg problem that any social media startup has.

    • LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Typical corporate greed in that sense. It’s stupid but I’m not at all surprised by that attitude.

      The part that even if they were morally right in that sense… it’s already too late. This is trying to close the barn door not just after the horse left, but after the horse already ran off and made it two states over. There’s definitely value to LLM in having more data and more up to date data, but reddit is far from the only source and I cannot imagine that they possess enough value there to have any serious leverage.

      Reddit would/will survive being taken out of internet search results. Not without costs though: it will arrest their growth rate (or accelerate shrink rate, as appropriate) and make people less interested in using the site.