I’m curious to get all of your thoughts on this. It’s no secret that AI has been growing quite exponentially over the last year. I feel that new models are being released almost every other day. With that said many of these models need a tremendous amount of data to train on. It’s no secret that reddit sells its users interaction to the highest bidder. This was partially the reason why they made the changes to the API limits that got many of us to move to the fediverse in the first place.
My question is how does everyone feel with knowing that multi-billion dollar companies as scraping this instance and the others, creating extra load on the servers for nothing more than to be able to profit from it?
What can be done to continue providing a free, open network to users but prevent those who are only looking to profit from the data?
edit: fixed title typo
My main issue with the Reddit deal (and similar data grabs) is that major AI companies are hoarding user-generated content to give themselves a competitive advantage. I have less of an issue with them using non-exclusive public content like Wikipedia, fediverse comments, and public-domain historical works.