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@productnerd As far as I can tell, there's no need for them to compensate creators:

When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content...

https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement

Still, usage of my content in LLMs isn't something I foresaw; it may be time to leave.

@yoasif That's exactly it. Our content is used to generate these LLM. Will there be a departure of professionals from spaces that claim rights to our content?

On the other hand, I do rather enjoy contributing to progress. I am okay with using my work to attract people to a specific platform to generate revenue through whatever means. I am unsure about the direct, albeit miniscule, large scale monetization of my explicit work.

@productnerd

>Will there be a departure of professionals from spaces that claim rights to our content?

>On the other hand, I do rather enjoy contributing to progress.

Amusingly, while professionals (term used loosely) are often very gung-hu about exploiting the efficiency gains enabled by tools, they are often the "greediest" in terms of contributing back to a shared corpus.

How often have you encountered private appended data stores never contributed back to primary sources?

@productnerd

>I am unsure about the direct, albeit miniscule, large scale monetization of my explicit work.

Well, it is also interesting to use both "large scale" and minuscule in the same sentence -- I don't really see it as minuscule, since the models are using the entirety of your work.

It doesn't feel at all like the concept of "fair use" for example -- things are copied wholesale, and all "derivative works" are not necessarily transformative.

@yoasif Hey this is a really great article! I'm glad you found inspiration for content!