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Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Fake4000@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] prex@aussie.zone 60 points 9 months ago (13 children)

I assume AI is training off the content here for free.

[–] OmanMkII@aussie.zone 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I was curious if a robots.txt equivalent exists for AI training data, and there was some solid points here:

If I go to your writing, I read it & learn from it. Your writing influences my future writing. We've been okay with this as long as it's not a blatant forgery.

If a computer goes to your writing, it reads it & learns from it. Your writing influences its future writing. It seems we are not okay with this, even if it isn't blatant forgery.

[AI at the moment is] different because the company is re-using your material to create a product they are going to sell. I'm not sure if I believe that is so different than a human employee doing the same thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34324208

I still think we should have the ability to opt out like we do with search engines and webcrawlers, but if the algorithm works ideally and learns but does not recycle content, is it truly any different from a factory of workers pumping out clones of popular series on Amazon? I honestly don't know the answer to that.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Afaik the OpenAI bot may choose to ignore it? At least that's what another user claimed it does.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 12 points 9 months ago

Robots.txt has been always ignored by some bots, it's just a guideline originally meant to prevent excessive bandwidth usage by search indexing bots and is entirely voluntary.

Archive.org bot for example has completely ignored it since 2017.

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