We need to wake up and understand that all the information already uploaded is more or less a free web material, once taken through the lens of ML-somethings. With all the second, and third-order effects such as the fact that this changes completely the whole motivation, and consequence of open-source perhaps.
It is also only a matter of time scrapers once again get through walls by twitter, reddit and alike. This is, after all, information everyone produced, without being aware of it was now considered not theirs anymore.
Precisely my point, and there is little if any evidence, there is anyone among the big players who puts peoples' rights before else by respecting licensing agreements before scrapping for training.
Indeed, Reddit sold their data the other thay GPT2 was announced, and it was very apparent why everyone closed their APIs in 2021-2023. Wonder what Aaron would've said about it.
Now we have walled gardens of information where people are allowed to plant, but never own the blossom.
It is also only a matter of time scrapers once again get through walls by twitter, reddit and alike. This is, after all, information everyone produced, without being aware of it was now considered not theirs anymore.