Reddit CEO Steve Huffman suggested that “authentic conversation” on Reddit makes its data valuable to these models. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all,” he told the New York Times.
But “we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free,” he said.
What a fucking absurd statement. This data was created by and belongs to the users that posted it. The fact they’re trying to dress up this bald faced greed in some corpo-rat attempt at moralism is even more gross.
We all know what this is about, you don’t want to miss your chance to become a billionaire in the AI rush. That’s literally all it is.