Fair reason for not participating in Reddit. I would argue though that while model training is not monetization per se, with this “AI as a platform” rationale promoted by OpenAI, Google and others, there is very direct link between model training and monetization. Monetization without your consent - especially when these companies refuse to reveal the sources of their training data. Wouldn’t be surprised if GPT-4 or Gemini have been trained on your Fediverse posts, or will be in the near future

I don’t expect anything, I was merely asking a question to clarify this

Thanks for confirming. It’s unfortunate that people who are outraged about Reddit selling their data to AI companies don’t really have an alternative in the fediverse.

I guess the best hope is for new mechanisms to control AI crawlers to emerge, so they can be blocked per user rather than per domain. Maybe https://spawning.ai will come up with something. One can hope.