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Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Part of the ToS. Whatever you put on there is effectively theirs. Same with Facebook and your photos etc.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

No you cannot transfer copyright with ToS agreements just give license for reddit to use your copyright.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Whatever you put on there is effectively theirs.

I would so love if companies that had decided they own/can sell the data users published lost section 230 protection. Oh, this is your data? I guess you don't need to be protected against the data users post if it's your data now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Afaik this portion is legally enforceable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Wouldn’t stop them from selling your data until they get charged

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

ToS don't prevent you from being a PoS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

And whatever you put on a public accessible webpage is effectively anyone's who makes a get request.