Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.
Anyways, what communities do you recommend?
I’ve made peace with everything I post publicly online getting slurped up in training data.
But at least on Lemmy someone isn’t claiming it’s theirs and making millions off of it while simultaneously selling our time and attention to advertisers.
I realize this will probably be a VERY unpopular take, but if you’re speaking publicly, there’s nothing for you to “make peace with.” If you’re speaking in public, you are literally donating whatever you’re saying to whoever is reading or listening to it.
If you don’t like that idea, then you shouldn’t speak in public. That is your option.
And no, there is no good recourse, to try and prevent people from using public conversations, for purposes that someone might not like. Because every way you could try to control that usage sets a HORRIBLE precedent.
Just one example: if you could stop public conversations from being examined for AI training purposes, you could also say “oh, by the way, nobody can use public conversations on either side of a legal case.” So then someone either gets away with major crimes, despite evidence just lying around out there, or someone else gets thrown in jail for something they didn’t do, because evidence that could have exonerated them is inadmissible, because we can’t use people’s public conversations for anything.
Be mad at AI, if you want. Hate it all you want. Be as doom-and-gloom, sky-is-falling, etc all you want. But public speech is still public, and there are very good reasons for you losing control of it, as soon as you voluntarily speak it.
No no, well said. I agree completely. What’s important is that this affirms the public domain, rather than (like Reddit’s behavior) denies the public domain.