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I wonder if reddit trains AI or allows AI to be trained off users who have not given consent (Which is supposedly the complaint from Reddit against Anthropic in this lawsuit).

For example: users who signed up under a specific version of reddit's TOS, stopped using reddit, and did not accept later version of the TOS allowing their content to be used.

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I suspect Reddit would try to lean on the catch-all ass-covering clauses that every social network already had long before AI data licensing deals were on the table. Such as this one from Reddits TOS circa 2018:

> By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.

IMO the actual hole in these clauses is that people post stuff they don't own to social media all the time, and in that case it doesn't matter what TOS the poster agreed to, it's not their stuff to give away. Reddit and similar are deliberately overlooking that of course because it would be impossible to check the copyright chain of custody for all of their posts, and their data licensing deals would be worthless if they had to.