So why isn't my glass of Campari drifting randomly across the table, under Brownian movement??? [/shitty drunkard joke]
Serious now. On economic matters I think that you're right.
You probably know it, but just in case that you (or anyone reading this, who might agree with you) don't: give the texts of The Fabian Society a check. They're rather close to what you're proposing with a peaceful transition; I have my criticisms against it as a Marxist strictu sensu, but I bet that you'll have a blast with it.
Applying the concept from the micro (enshittification of the platforms) to the macro (enshittification of the economic system) is brilliant.
I don't think that there is one yet, otherwise it would get famous. Not sure though.
They're still providing the code for people who buy the compiled software. And they are not restricting their ability to redistribute that code. So it's still compliant with the GPL in the letter. However, if you redistribute it, they'll refuse to service you further versions of the software.
It's clearly a loophole because they can argue "ackshyually, we didn't restrict you, we just don't want further businesses with you, see ya sucker".
I think that the RHEL example is out-of-place, since IBM ("Red Hat") is clearly exploiting a loophole of the GNU Public License. Similar loopholes have been later addressed by e.g. the AGPL and the GPLv3*, so I expect this one to be addressed too.
So perhaps, if the GPL is "not enough", the solution might be more GPL.
*note that the license used by the kernel is GPLv2. Cue to Android (for all intents and purposes non-free software) using the kernel, but not the rest.
Now I get it. And yes, now I agree with you; it would give them a bit more merit to claim that the data being used in the input was obtained illegally. (Unless Meta has right of use to ThePile.)
The link does not mention GPT (OpenAI, Microsoft) or LaMDA/Bard (Google, Alphabet), but if Meta is doing it odds are that the others are doing it too.
Sadly this would be up to the copyright holders of this data. It does not apply to NYT content that you can freely access online, for NYT it got to be about the output, not the input.
I don't think that the content was illegally obtained, unless there's some law out there that prevents you from using a crawler to automatically retrieve text. And probably there's no law against using data intended for human consumption to feed AI.
As such, I might be wrong but I think that the only issue is that this data is being used to output derivative works, and acc. to NYT in some instances "can generate output that recites Times content verbatim, closely summarizes it, and mimics its expressive style."
That sounds reasonable.
2 seconds later someone can train a new one
"Training" datasets:
Does this look like the amount of content that you'd get in two seconds???
Maybe they should learn to code like those coal miners they pitied.
And maybe you should go back to Reddit.
Threads like this are why I discuss this shit in Lemmy, not in HN itself. The idiocy in the comments there is facepalm-worthy.
Plenty users there are trapping themselves in the "learning" metaphor, as if LLMs were actually "learning" shit like humans would. It's a fucking tool dammit, and it is being legally treated as such.
The legal matter here boils down to: OpenAI is picking content online, feeding it into a tool, the tool transforms it into derivative content, and the derivative content is serviced to users. Is the transformation deep enough to make said usage go past copyright? A: nobody decided yet.
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A lot of deletion/edition tools rely on the API in order to work. As such, they'll stop working on the 1st of July, as the API price changes start being enforced. Better do it now than never.
In my humble opinion, the easiest of them to use would be Power Delete Suite. It allows you to export your content if you so desire.
There's also dessalines' Reddit-History (yup, the Lemmy admin!) that helps you to export your stuff, in case that you want to do it in a more fine-grained way.
There are other tools to do it, however, so pick the one that you like the most.
Should I delete my content? Or edit it?
Up to you. I think that it simple deletion is enough.
However, if you want to edit your content, keep in mind that Reddit likely wants to capitalise on data model training, so pick one of the two choices:
1. Blabber.
Random words, in an agrammatical word order, devoid of any sort of meaning. Introducing noise on the data models makes the data from Reddit considerably less reliable.
If you feel specially uninspired, here's a random word generator. You could also try Zompist's gen, it's a tool intended for people constructing languages, but it's damn good to generate non-linguistic babble.
2. Some message against Reddit.
Don't use swear words, as those might get filtered. Something as simple and short as "potatoes are great because Reddit is a scummy company" goes a long way.
That would also help to pinpoint which companies are doing businesses with Reddit, and pressure them to stop doing it.
Noooo! Think on all the helpful threads!
You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs. While it's true that some information will be lost (less if you back up your content elsewhere), overall you're doing better for the internet by not playing along a clearly hostile agent in it.
EDIT:
Thinking about Reddit Inc.'s strategy to get money, perhaps it is better if you replace the content of your comments with random babble than if you simply delete it, if you want them to lose money.
Random babble is not just less useful for those large language models; it's outright poisonous, it's worth less than nothing. I might be wrong but I think that it decreases the value of the platform even further than plain deletion.
This will probably not help OP, as he's asking for an Android client.
Desktop users: install Firefox, uBlock Origin, then add reddit.com to your personal user filters. This way you can still access Reddit if you really want to, but it'll make you think twice before proceeding.