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Using the lemmyverse user generated content to train AI (self.main)

submitted 9 months ago by Nicarlo to c/main

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With the latest announcement regarding google allegedly paying reddit 60million per year for access to user created content to train their AI, what is stopping companies from using the freely available information on the lemmyverse to do it for free?

How does everyone feel about the likelihood of this already happening and should something be done about it?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nothing is stopping them from doing it, and the only reason it might not be already happening is the possibility that nobody has cared enough to bother yet.

And by design nothing much can be done about it. That's the nature of a decentralized platform - it's explicitly set up to share content, and that's what it does, by default. And there is no central authority that can control access to the fediverse as a whole. And that's pretty much that.

And personally, I don't care. I've never bought into the nonsensical idea that the stuff I post in a public forum is in any meaningful sense my property after I post it.

[–] platypode 7 points 9 months ago

Agreed--if I put up a poster on a billboard, I'm not really in a position to complain if someone takes a picture of it.