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Reddit signs $60M contract allowing AI company to train its models on the social media platform's content (www.reuters.com)

submitted 7 months ago by minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to c/technology

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[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dumb question for the Lemmy lawyers, if enough redditors joined could a class action lawsuit be filed to be paid for their content... Or is that so outside of the TOS that it's not worth considering?

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

TOS dictates that Reddit owns all content on their platform, you’d have no case

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

However It gets interesting because under EU law TOS that violate GDPR are not enforceable. So at least EU citizens could probably have some recourse.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There’s a lot of “at least EU citizens” going around lol

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 7 months ago

California has something similar too (CCPA), as do a few other non-EU countries and US states.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago

Americans find it odd that other people have legal protections.

[–] jarfil 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Reddit doesn't "own" the content, TOS only have users agree to give Reddit a license to do as it pleases.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah, right they don’t own it! It’s just stored on their servers, and they have exclusive rights to do whatever they’d like with it. But they don’t own it.

[–] jarfil 1 points 7 months ago

Read the TOS, they don't have "exclusive" rights.