Fair reason for not participating in Reddit. I would argue though that while model training is not monetization per se, with this “AI as a platform” rationale promoted by OpenAI, Google and others, there is very direct link between model training and monetization. Monetization without your consent - especially when these companies refuse to reveal the sources of their training data. Wouldn’t be surprised if GPT-4 or Gemini have been trained on your Fediverse posts, or will be in the near future

After reading your comment I was disappointed openai.social doesn’t exist

Is it? Reddit is technically “public” too in the sense that you can view all the content without an account, yet Google and others pay for the data anyway. And for many years, people made stuff public and could reasonably expect it won’t show up in any major search engines because Google, MS and others respected robot.txt. I know it was never legally binding. I’m also not naive, I know I give up control when I post publicly and there won’t ever be a perfect solution to the AI crawler situation. But a lot is changing right now, regulatory and technologically.

I don’t expect anything, I was merely asking a question to clarify this

Thanks for confirming. It’s unfortunate that people who are outraged about Reddit selling their data to AI companies don’t really have an alternative in the fediverse.

I guess the best hope is for new mechanisms to control AI crawlers to emerge, so they can be blocked per user rather than per domain. Maybe https://spawning.ai will come up with something. One can hope.