On the Internet, You Own Nothing, Not Even Your Words

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Normally I try to limit myself to a post a day, but I'm boiling with rage over this, so let's break it down.

It was just announced that Reddit has inked a deal with OpenAI (one of the world's biggest innovators in software that will steal your work, not pay for it, and use it to put people like you out of jobs), allowing them to use every word and image on Reddit to pay for content. Never mind that the users did not consent to this, or that most users expect their content on any given service to be protected from blatant thievery like this.

On the Internet, you don't own anything. You don't even own your words. Everything you have written can be bought and sold, with none of the profit going to you.

To these platforms, you are not a person. Your human brain did not create these words or images. Rather, to Big Tech, you are the content. Why would content want itself to be protected? Content can't speak, it can only be. And anything that can only be, with no voice for itself, can be sold.

I am so done with AI, I am so done with Big Tech, and I am so done with endless breaches of user data in the name of "innovation." I hope the AI bubble bursts and all of the billionaire hucksters ruining the Internet in the name of "innovation" lose significant amounts of money.