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It's not about it being used to train AI. It's about the AI either not being open source/I don't get access to it (i.e. not benefitting me) or reddit being paid for my comments (i e. also not benefitting me).
If this AI training would get me or the public access to the AI, or I would be paid for my comments instead of Reddit, I'd be fine with it.
yeah but you don't get to choose that. You give away that right as soon as you participate in public discourse. It's a zero sum game - either it's a public for everyone or no one.
Don't get me wrong, Reddit is a bitch but I think people want to cut their noses off to spite their faces here. It's much more important to have free information flow than to fuck reddit.
My fear is that people will vote in some really dumb rules to spite AI and restrict free information flow accidentally.
That's how it is currently and maybe also your opinion. But that doesn't mean it has to be like that in a society. It's your opinion that everything public can go private at any time (training proprietary private AI), but we can decide as a society that's not how we want to do things. We can require stuff that used public data to be public as well.
And yeah I kinda get to choose that. As democratic society, anything that the public (i.e. including me) decides, goes. Of course, if there are people like you that don't want stuff trained on public data to be required to be public, democracy will also work in the sense that we don't get that, as it is currently.