I just found out reddit sold everything we wrote to AI companies… and honestly I don’t know how to feel

I just found out reddit sold everything we wrote to AI companies… and honestly I don’t know how to feel

So I was reading about Reddit’s API controversy from 2023 and fell down a rabbit hole.

Turns out every post, every comment, every opinion you’ve shared here - reddit licensed it to openai and google. No opt-out. No warning. Just. - done.

And that’s just reddit. Meanwhile Google, Meta, and basically every major platform are quietly building a profile on you — your interests, your political leanings, your daily routine, your insecurities. All from things you said or clicked on “anonymously.”

The wild part? We already knew this was happening. It’s not new. Yet here we all are, still posting.

So I’m genuinely curious — why do you still use reddit (or big tech in general) knowing this?

Is it because:

  • The alternatives (Lemmy- kbin- etc…) just aren’t there yet?
  • You’ve accepted it as the price of the internet
  • You actually don’t think it’s that big a deal?
  • Or you simply never thought about it until now?

Not judging anyone — I’m still here too. Just want to hear honest answers.

  • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    32·
    5 days ago

    Literally all the time when making lists.

    Usually I use them:

    • when listing instructions for a user (I work in IT, shocking)
    • making a to do list
    • when asking a series of questions
    • specifically to annoy you
    • Tm12@lemmy.caEnglish
      20·
      5 days ago

      Few things I don’t even understand:

      • Why are bullets catching strays but not em dashes?
      • There’s literally a bullet button in the WYSIWYG editor (between quote and numbered list).
      • I use this shit all the time because my sentences don’t flow coherently.
      • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        81·
        5 days ago

        I’m not going to lie, I never knew what an em dash was until approximately late 2023.

        But now I use them a lot!

        They’ve solved my millennial ass issue of misusing the ellipsis when I text/write comments on Lemmy.

        • ∃∀λ@programming.dev
          2·
          4 days ago

          We used to use parenthesis for interjections. I miss the days when text on the internet was mostly limited to the 95 printable characters on a typical American keyboard plus a few control characters.

        • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          I incorrectly used hyphens in place of em dashes before learning to distinguish them properly. I very much resent that this AI slop world makes the general public assume that em dashes mean bot- generated text these days. I just want to abruptly change thoughts in the middle of my writing!