Isn’t this the same logic used to justify using our posts to train large language models?
And also by the bots we use to copy reddit content here, I presume? 😛
I’m actually not a fan of copying Reddit content over to here either. I’m at least consistent that in my thought processes.
Fair enough.
I don’t even truly know where I stand if I had to personally decide it. I guess i’m one of those filthy Neutrals, I have no strong opinion either way. 😑
I’m of the opinion that we don’t value our content enough. We should respect it and people. But we should also believe in our community to create its own content. I get so much help here and am so grateful for all the people. I love every experience I have here and I believe everyone can have similar experiences if they stop trying to recreate old experiences.
I don’t even like the fact that we’re forced to train AI via captcha. When we start getting paid for what we put in, I’ll reconsider my stance.
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I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect that platforms you’re not a member don’t host content you create in order to make it look at though their platform is more popular and vibrant than it is, thus generating revenue of which you’re not going to get a share of.
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Assuming you hold rights to your content in the legal system you’d be claiming the damages in, you are of course free to file a lawsuit.
That raises a point, what is the process regarding DMCA and GDPR? There’s no mechanism to delete posts via scraped content.
And neither via federation like in AP. It’s a bit of a hole that should the technology get truly big will eventually come to a head.
We already had lawsuits in Germany related to linking to copyright infringing content, it’s not a big stretch that if you scrape or federate a link that could infringe, you are in turn infringing.
But with AP, you can purge content. When you scrape content, there’s no way to get a purge notice.
Where exactly does a “platform” end? Is it only lemmy.tf, or all Lemmy instances? Either way Mastodon or Peertube can hardly be considered to be the same platform as Lemmy. Activitypub is a protocol and definitely not a platform. Or would you consider threads.net part of your “platform” once it implements Activitypub?
That’s a good question. We have the Lemmy platform, but that’s built on the wider ActivityPub platform. So I would consider threads part of the platform.
