Hijacking top comment to say this post is misinformation: https://lemm.ee/comment/12015917

I’m sorry, can everyone not read the actual link? They specifically say they are not training generative AIs, i.e. LLMs.

They are using the data to train non-generative AIs for stuff like emoji and channel suggestions. I.e. “you use this emoji a lot, so it’s displayed first” or “people that are in these channels of yours also join these other channels you’re not in yet”.

This is class A misinformation being spread here, good job. It’s unbelievable that I’m the first one to actually verify the truth of this post, because I wanted to share it further and that’s what you do before.

That’s how it is currently and maybe also your opinion. But that doesn’t mean it has to be like that in a society. It’s your opinion that everything public can go private at any time (training proprietary private AI), but we can decide as a society that’s not how we want to do things. We can require stuff that used public data to be public as well.

And yeah I kinda get to choose that. As democratic society, anything that the public (i.e. including me) decides, goes. Of course, if there are people like you that don’t want stuff trained on public data to be required to be public, democracy will also work in the sense that we don’t get that, as it is currently.

It’s not about it being used to train AI. It’s about the AI either not being open source/I don’t get access to it (i.e. not benefitting me) or reddit being paid for my comments (i e. also not benefitting me).

If this AI training would get me or the public access to the AI, or I would be paid for my comments instead of Reddit, I’d be fine with it.