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    Seeing big companies take advantage of BSD or MIT licensed projects without sharing their contributions will always pain me. (lemmy.world)
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    [–] AA5B@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

    No one brought up ai yet? No, srsly …..

    My opinion on these licenses is theoretical since I haven’t actually developed any open source.

    However an analogous scenario which DOES affect me, and most people here ….

    • I’ve posted my opinion online in various places. Offered freely to the public to do as they please.
    • I’m fine with companies making money off providing the aggregate of such efforts to the public, such as by advertising. However my pseudonym retains credit and the audience is open

    All well and good until AI came along and everyone sees a potential jackpot. And there’s Reddit, wanting a bigger share of that jackpot. They’ve taken the idea a step farther and I’m not ok with it. I guess I don’t like the restrictions and I don’t like the extra levels of profiteering: Reddit makes money off providing my content in a limited form to private companies. They in turn make money off AI trained by my content, to a limited audience and there is no longer a portion credited to my pseudonym. Technically they’re in the right since I never thought to prevent this scenario, but they’re not using it in the way I expected/intended/ was told