With the latest announcement regarding google allegedly paying reddit 60million per year for access to user created content to train their AI, what is stopping companies from using the freely available information on the lemmyverse to do it for free?
How does everyone feel about the likelihood of this already happening and should something be done about it?
Technically copyright stops them. I know, the whole copyright debate on AI training hasn’t been settled. But when you sign a contract with reddit or dropbox, I assume it includes a licence to use the content to train AI.
Here on Lemmy, I never gave a licence to my instance to reuse my content. and I keep full copyright on the content.
Well I know, nobody cares about copyright, but there is a difference between OP downloading a torrent of my little pony and a company making tons of money out of it. Remember that the pirate bay founder got jail time,