Reddit Signs $60 Million Deal to Scrape Your Online Community for AI Parts: Report
Date Linked: 20 February 2024
Source: story link, from gizmodo.com
Look, I’ve never been really into Reddit, but I’m still really disappointed in the company. This sucks.
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I have lots of concerns about LLM training, but I think it’s better to think of the issue in terms of digital labor, not copyright. My blog is licensed for reuse, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less exploitative for someone to scrape it all to develop software that will make them rich off my work.
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