It was going to get scraped and used by AI anyway? Given that I'm not sure I care that much if reddit makes a bit of cash off it. Honestly, this is the future, if it's publically available on the internet it's going to be scraped and used by AI. The inevitable consequence of which is probably more conversation moves into private places like Discord.

But that's the future we're in, it's not gonna get rolled back.

I don't see why Discord would not follow suit if it has not already

Everyone is privacy focused until they're not

Yeah Discord isn't E2EE, it could easily be transformed into a data mine, which is one of the reasons I stopped using it years ago.

With only $60M a year to go around, I'm not sure my share of comments would even add up to a full dime anyway. They can have it.

That's arguably more true in advertising driven reddit than AI reddit - no one comment is going to be worth the most in a data scraper but eyeballs win in advertising.

I think the entire thing is scummy too, but its interesting to me how people think that advertisers were somehow less bad than this.

It's interesting how you're creating an argument out of thin air.

The article was about mining comments for AI, not about advertisement. Yet you brought in the topic of advertisement, and then created a fake argument about how people think advertisers are better than AI scraping. It's really weird that you did that.

And it's weird you choose such a confrontational tone instead of one that would cause someone to explain something, thanks for your contribution.

They are using a service that allows them to make their opinion public and publicised and to know other people's opinions. Or does that have no value now?

It does have value, enough value that the owners can sell that content to third parties and so reasonably I should get my cut.