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Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Which makes me question whether the fediverse is a good thing

I'd argue it's good, because it means open source AI has a fighting chance with FOSS data to train on without needing to fork over a morbillion dollars to Reddits owners.

Whatever use cases the reddit data can train on, FOSS researchers can repeat it on Lemmy data and release free models that average joes can use on their own without having to subscribe to shit like Microsoft Copilot and friends to stay relevant.