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It's worrisome, but it's not exactly the same.

We'll see whether they get abusive, and whether the Federal antitrust laws will come in and nearly dismantle the company like they did to Microsoft.

I want it, and I want it in a browser that isn't controlled by Google.

Instead you're posting to the Fediverse, which is even more open for use by third parties.

You think Microsoft is the only organization capable of producing these tools? They weren't even the first.

I don't see anything in the article related to elections.

Why are you applying for jobs that you're not qualified for? Even if you BS your way through the interviews you'll have to actually do the work.

I am baffled that you appear to be attacking Microsoft over this. They're doing research to counter bad actors here.

Fortunately there are a lot of open source models these days too.

Fortunately they may not really be able to. Reddit's comments and submissions are available here, and since this includes deleted content as well as the stuff that users have later edited away with scripts it may even be a better resource than what Reddit is offering itself. You'd need to train your AI in a legally permissive environment, of course, but there's places like that around the world and this is actually something that would advantage the "little guys" since they aren't as easy to target.

I'm kind of puzzled by this mindset. You were pleased with supporting and helping people before, but now supporting and helping is bad?

There are archives of all Reddit comments that are collected at the time of posting, all the deletion and scrubbing and whatnot people are doing months or years after the fact doesn't affect those.

Well, I guess you could take them to court.

The important thing here IMO is not so much the enforceability as the intent. It was always obvious that Reddit would do whatever they wanted with the stuff we published there because they said they would do whatever they wanted with the stuff we published there. Personally, I knew this and just shrugged because it's no skin off my back if they do whatever they want with the stuff I published there - I was having fun posting, which was my goal. If they figured out some way to make those posts valuable then bully for them. They weren't otherwise valuable to me so it costs me nothing.

It's the same here on the Fediverse. When I post this stuff I'm tossing it out into the ether. It's on an open protocol intended to broadcast my comments to any compatible instances, so even if there isn't some literal terms of service that I signed that says "this content may show up on Threads or wherever" I know that it might show up on Threads or wherever. If I was truly fundamentally opposed to that then I wouldn't post.