I just found out reddit sold everything we wrote to AI companies… and honestly I don’t know how to feel

I just found out reddit sold everything we wrote to AI companies… and honestly I don’t know how to feel

So I was reading about Reddit’s API controversy from 2023 and fell down a rabbit hole.

Turns out every post, every comment, every opinion you’ve shared here - reddit licensed it to openai and google. No opt-out. No warning. Just. - done.

And that’s just reddit. Meanwhile Google, Meta, and basically every major platform are quietly building a profile on you — your interests, your political leanings, your daily routine, your insecurities. All from things you said or clicked on “anonymously.”

The wild part? We already knew this was happening. It’s not new. Yet here we all are, still posting.

So I’m genuinely curious — why do you still use reddit (or big tech in general) knowing this?

Is it because:

  • The alternatives (Lemmy- kbin- etc…) just aren’t there yet?
  • You’ve accepted it as the price of the internet
  • You actually don’t think it’s that big a deal?
  • Or you simply never thought about it until now?

Not judging anyone — I’m still here too. Just want to hear honest answers.

  • Lag@piefed.worldEnglish
    20·
    14 hours ago

    We switch to local meeting spots and pass around flashdrives of weekly memes. Refer to your local memester to turn in your flashdrive for a new weekly updated meme drive.

    I need to open a meme truck.

    • CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world
      9·
      14 hours ago

      That was unironically my take when AI bots started taking over the internet forums.

      I even said to a friend, people will start to go back to small closed communities or groups where everybody knows each other, and everybody knows no AI crap will be shared in those groups. Local art will be more valuable because we know for sure that it’s human made and someone put real effort on it.

      Mainstream media will be always prone to be AI poisoned.

      • Tiresia@slrpnk.net
        1·
        11 hours ago

        In many cases, it’s easier to have an online culture with an anti-AI policy than a local one. A bunch of people already insist on using AI when interacting with others irl, and many more are passively supportive of them doing so. (i.e. “they don’t care”, but in a very different way from how “they don’t care” about someone eating vegan).

        So an online group that has persistent identities where it’s hard to get a new account with a good status whose culture opposes AI is going to be much easier to keep AI-free than your local neighborhood third space.

        • REDACTED@infosec.pub
          1·
          8 minutes ago

          Right, like how heavily Lemmy hates AI but then I see AI generated memes or shitposts constantly?