I just found out reddit sold everything we wrote to AI companies… and honestly I don’t know how to feel

I just found out reddit sold everything we wrote to AI companies… and honestly I don’t know how to feel

So I was reading about Reddit’s API controversy from 2023 and fell down a rabbit hole.

Turns out every post, every comment, every opinion you’ve shared here - reddit licensed it to openai and google. No opt-out. No warning. Just. - done.

And that’s just reddit. Meanwhile Google, Meta, and basically every major platform are quietly building a profile on you — your interests, your political leanings, your daily routine, your insecurities. All from things you said or clicked on “anonymously.”

The wild part? We already knew this was happening. It’s not new. Yet here we all are, still posting.

So I’m genuinely curious — why do you still use reddit (or big tech in general) knowing this?

Is it because:

  • The alternatives (Lemmy- kbin- etc…) just aren’t there yet?
  • You’ve accepted it as the price of the internet
  • You actually don’t think it’s that big a deal?
  • Or you simply never thought about it until now?

Not judging anyone — I’m still here too. Just want to hear honest answers.

  • CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I commented on this post.

    I said it doesn’t make sense, anyone can scrap Reddit or Lemmy just fine to train on LLM.

    They’re just making it official.

    If you don’t want your data trained on LLMs just stop interacting on the internet.

    I’m not very into this subject but I think they can use proxies to bypass rate limitation by IPs while scrapping a lot of Reddit per second. Even Lemmy can be scrapped.

    Even your views might help LLMs training because your views tell which content is worth to focus and scrap.