Yes, but I did not mean retroactively. Nor did I mean only on Reddit, by the way. However, making money from already published content is not what I have consented when I joined Reddit like 15 years ago.
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Haven’t dug up anything earlier than this, do you know of any?
Basically, you gave Reddit your approval long ago.
Yes I did, but it is not clear if these are enforceable in court, when they give us read those multi page agreements that most people skip. More over AI like today did not exist and one can easily argue that that agreement does not cover data use for AI like chatGPT, since neither of the side understood implications for that. It is like owning nukes is not covered by second amendment.
I don’t mind to give my content for AI training. But with my approval and for free.
You can’t put conditions on it retroactively. You already published.
I am not trying to do that retroactively.
“But with my approval and for free” are new conditions that weren’t present when you originally published it on Reddit.
Yes, but I did not mean retroactively. Nor did I mean only on Reddit, by the way. However, making money from already published content is not what I have consented when I joined Reddit like 15 years ago.
From the current Reddit User Agreement:
I found a historical version from 10 years ago and that version already had this:
Haven’t dug up anything earlier than this, do you know of any?
Basically, you gave Reddit your approval long ago.
Yep, they changed it.
Did you use the service in the last 10 years?
Yes I did, but it is not clear if these are enforceable in court, when they give us read those multi page agreements that most people skip. More over AI like today did not exist and one can easily argue that that agreement does not cover data use for AI like chatGPT, since neither of the side understood implications for that. It is like owning nukes is not covered by second amendment.