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Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text (theluddite.org)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I know there are other ways of accomplishing that, but this might be a convenient way of doing it. I'm wondering though if Reddit is still reverting these changes?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It's not reddit's data, it's the users'. Reddit management is just overentitled jerks.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Someone didn't read the TOS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Admittedly, I haven't read the TOS... but I don't need to. At least where I live it would be illegal to claim ownership of someone else's work (unless you paid a living wage to create it, or something along those lines. A software company for example can claim ownership of employee created software).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Maybe you should read them. They are not claiming ownership. They are claiming that you licenced them to use your contributions for whatever purpose they want. Different thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The users give the site a pretty broad license for their content. Calling it the user’s data is a moot point.

Don’t even recall if the Lemmy instance I use has a TOS, but it’s likely the server owner has similar rights just by the nature of how this tech works.