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Reddit thinks its super valuable asset is the lump of data (about 2TB) consisting of archived text that users have posted. They want to sell it for AI training. Meta is more about surveillance, so different incentives. Of course the Reddit archive through 2022(?) is already downloadable via the PushShift torrent, oops.
I suspect the weird recurring memes that require decade old knowledge of the platform to fully understand is going to create some "quirky" AI hallucinations
Maybe what they really want to sell is more like the Twitter firehose feed, for real-time sentiment analysis and market predictions. I'm not happy that Lemmy gives that out at all, but I don't see a good way to prevent it. I think interesting communities will eventually have to go private.
Giving it out free devalues those trying to profit from the same product. And if it's free, open source platforms can benefit too.
My I'm feeling optimistic tonight.