Agree “many obvious reasons”. That said I feel as though there may be some merit to the “we need a way to keep AI bots from just taking all our content and reselling it via AI”.
There are a million other reasons to stop using Reddit and I won’t be going back.
But for years they built up a ton of great user contributed content. Just like it’s unfair for art, music, other content to be absorbed / plagiarized and repackaged as AI… it is also unfair that web bots steal all the old/good Reddit content and don’t give credit + make money off content generated by old Reddit.
I mean I’m in my 50s and for years Reddit was awesome for me. Sure “Reddit” didn’t make all those posts themselves - but they created a space where folks like me could (and did) enjoy contributing and engaging.
Has been getting worse for a long time, but that doesn’t mean it was never good.
I don’t mind that Reddit in some ways profited from the content I contributed- because
I got enormous value from the site and it was 100% free for me
I intentionally was contributing to the site knowing that they would host my content and potentially profit from it.
Agree “many obvious reasons”. That said I feel as though there may be some merit to the “we need a way to keep AI bots from just taking all our content and reselling it via AI”.
There are a million other reasons to stop using Reddit and I won’t be going back.
But for years they built up a ton of great user contributed content. Just like it’s unfair for art, music, other content to be absorbed / plagiarized and repackaged as AI… it is also unfair that web bots steal all the old/good Reddit content and don’t give credit + make money off content generated by old Reddit.
Note: reddit bad. Also AI plagiarism bad.
On that note, reddit didn’t generate most of that content either.
I mean I’m in my 50s and for years Reddit was awesome for me. Sure “Reddit” didn’t make all those posts themselves - but they created a space where folks like me could (and did) enjoy contributing and engaging.
Has been getting worse for a long time, but that doesn’t mean it was never good.
I don’t mind that Reddit in some ways profited from the content I contributed- because
AI takes without consent and charges for benefit