Interesting theory for what might have been another motivation behind the API changes. After all, Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) is a member of the Reddit board. What do you think?

edit: this is not my article by the way

  • Izzy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought it was obvious this was the case. Twitter and Reddit are unhappy that AI language models have used all this data for training, but didn’t get paid for it. Personally I don’t even consider it “their” data to begin with even if they can claim legal ownership of it. But they want to get paid obscene amounts of money for data that was created by the goodwill of their users.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not their data. If you scrape Reddit for the comments are reposted them somewhere else Reddit wouldn’t be able to come after you with a copyright violation lawsuit.

      Any potential copyright is still owned by the original user with Reddit having a license to sublicense for “syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit.”

      They would have to come after you with a ToS contract violation or maybe some kind of Computer Fraud and Misuse allegations.

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        1 year ago

        I completely agree it isn’t their data. They still want money for data that isn’t theirs.

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          1 year ago

          Sorry if I seemed argumentative. I was trying to state that it wasn’t just your opinion that they don’t own user data but it is a fact they don’t own user data.