• LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    This data was out in the open for a decade and still is. People could train their llm without problems.

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      11 months ago

      Not legally / free.

      And yes, that very very much matters if you intend to actually sell the service to companies that they themselves dont want to get hit in the crossfire of potential lawsuits for building their products on top of stolen info.

      So if you can own the data itself (via buying reddit), you now have an ENORMOUS quantity of prime training data that you’re investors and potential customers know is legally clean, because you literally own it.

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        And then everyone started deleting accounts, comments and even rewriting and poisoning their comments. The data was way better before the API change.