To add to the other reply, you also don’t need to watch a full video, they register slight pauses as you scroll. They also build a profile using all their platforms and multiple types of data.

I hate Facebook as much as the next guy but I think this whole defederation business just stinks. I left Reddit because they were forcing me to use their app, but now I’m in a community that chooses what I see?

I’m hoping lemmy sets up a way to ban instances because this should 100% be up to the user.

There’s also the fact that this place is starving for content, this really feels like a shoot yourself in the foot kind of moment. The userbase is going to completely stall if there’s an alternative with 100x more content that can’t be accessed from our endpoint.

Its definitely a complicated situation, I know it’s an unpopular opinion so I’ll accept the downvotes.

The internet belongs to everyone, google should have as much right to it as us. I use public data when I make a fine tune of an llm or a stable diffusion lora.

The only ones to benefit from restricting data access are the big companies, because they already have it all. Don’t fall into the trap of advocating for a closed copyrighted internet, it will only hurt the little guys and literally no one else.

I think it’s fine, even more so if you name who the original author is. I already created two clone subs and I plan on boosting them with a lot of stolen content from a bit everywhere until people join, if they do.

That being said, I’m new.

China didn’t take your job and neither will AI. Corporations will replace you for something that cost less.

We can’t really legislate against AI because other countries won’t. Its also a huge boon for society, we just have to make sure the profits are redistributed and work hours overall are reduced instead of all the productivity gain going into the pockets of the mega wealthy