Reddit’s reported AI deal comes as it prepares to go public.

Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content::Reddit has reportedly made a deal with an unnamed AI company to allow access to its platform’s content for the purposes of AI model training.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    When spez took away API access, he basically shit on the social contract that offered a fair exchange of free access for the content we fed into reddit. There is no contract. There are no terms. If you use reddit now, you are giving away everything you are to be indexed and mangled by statistics.

    I’m going to make the request in the AM that Lemmy should add robots.txt rules to disallow AI crawlers, to at least indicate we’re not interested. We need legislation that tells scrapers what they can access.