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joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I disagree, it's still too early and a bit presumptuous to make such conclusive statements

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Getty is already suing the Dall-E creators, and someone is suing MS for Copilot; so it's already started

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I am sorry but you don't know what you are talking about. These things are regulated by legal documents, you don't just wake up on morning and say "trust me bro, their data is public"

If you go and read their TnC's it explicitly statea that scraping is forbidden without prioir written consent. They only allow access to their data via APIs, which of course they charge for

The fact that it can be easily scraped it's neither here nor there, if they catch you they can sue you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Technically not (well, they can make it harder), but they can sue them for doing it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh I'm not saying they are doing the right thing or that it was the correct decision. Just speculating whether LLMs is what kicked off the whole thing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

I mean I like the lemmy-verse, but the main devs behind Lemmy are totally tankies. It's the reason why a lot of people are hesitant in joining

This is the main developer (one of the only two developers) - if the avatar wasn't enough, have a look at the "essays" repo in his account... https://github.com/dessalines

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, one of the other answers to the AMA was "we are not profitable yet, unlike the 3rd part app devs..." - that is something that wouldn't sit well with any investor I know

 

One of Spez's answers in the infamous Reddit AMA struck me

Two things happened at the same time: the LLM explosion put all Reddit data use at the forefront, and our continuing efforts to reign in costs...

I am beginning to think all they wanted to do was getting their share of the AI pie, since we know Reddit's data is one of the major datasets for training conversetional models. But they are such a bunch of bumbling fools, as well as being chronically understaffed, the whole thing exploded in their face. At this stage their only chance if survival may well be to be bought out by OpenAI...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think this is "normal" and the previous status was a glitch due to the low interest rates. Investors threw money at tech companies and didn't care whether they made any money. Not any more. It's now "make money or go bust". I am not sayiny these new trends will make them money, but IMHO it's what's driving them