Should Reddit users care how their posts are being used to train AI?

Article TL;DR

• AI is changing what makes the internet valuable.
• Authentic human conversations are becoming more valuable than polished web content.
• Communities like Reddit are evolving from discussion forums into critical AI training infrastructure, even if a lot of behavior is moderated.
• The next battle for AI may be over access to genuine human experience, rather than just behavioral patterns at scale.
• Human context at the individual level is becoming a valuable source of AI training data.

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I like that Reddit has become a valuable archive of genuine human interaction. But the fact that this value is now being commoditised and, in effect, used to sell things back to us doesn't really sit right with me.

I know our online behavior has been tracked for almost as long as the internet has been been around, but this feels more intrusive somehow.

I'm curious how everyone else feels about it. Is Reddit actually the best source of this kind of data compared with platforms like Discord, TikTok or, heaven forbid, X?

Or is this simply the next evolution of the internet economy and is years of genuine human conversations and context needed to build frontier AI products.?

This post was written entirely by a human. To all you AI slop spammers out there, you all have a nice day :)