> If the comments and posts are artwork, or music, would that also be legitimate usage by reddit according to their Terms of Service?
I don't see why they wouldn't be.
In any case, I'll be spending this week scrambling my old comments & probably deleting my submissions. Reddit's sufficiently user hostile at this point that I can find other places to entertain myself online.
> When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content
The models trained there on are rotten fruits and will be destroyed under court order. Frankly, a cartel with the power to change their countries laws would be wise to spend a few billion building out a state of the art ai lab and blatantly training their models on everything they can download. Everyone would use it. Would the us actually invade ($country) because hyper realistic Taylor swift and Mickey Mouse porn is a tap and swipe away?
"Your Content," not "your content." It is legalese jargon, defined as: "Content created with or submitted to the Services by you or through your Account"
And: "By submitting Your Content to the Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights to Your Content"
Of course, how many people posting memes on Reddit have the rights to do so? How many know they're in violation of the user agreement in doing so, hah.
Hopefully, the dataset will be pirated and released into the de-facto public domain, since it was always considered by the users to be a commons, not an intellectual slave farm.
This just shows why scraping content to use for models has to be free for everyone or incumbents are gonna pull stuff like this. Open source has to be able to compete with big tech, who can train all their stuff on their users data, as per their tos and big rights holders.
If the comments and posts are artwork, or music, would that also be legitimate usage by reddit according to their Terms of Service?
"The user is the product." Appears to be true again, now there.
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