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Content is absolutely archived and they have financial incentive to restore the quality of their “knowledge base”
That’s a fair amount of circumstance and motivation to support my idea, regardless of tangible evidence
Motivation and circumstance, absent actual evidence, does not make for a convincing argument.
Alright well I guess evidence is needed before we can have ideas - crazy
No, it just means that they are no more than ideas at this point
Right, which means it can be fairly considered when discussing the real crux of the issue with AI and big tech companies right now, which is the monetization of other peoples content.
If we’re discussing this, we should be looking at whether or not companies are doing this, given they have motive and specific, relevant circumstance to enact such behavior.
Lack of evidence means you need to investigate for said evidence. It does not mean you should not investigate. Privacy advocates, members of any org/cert with an ethics statement should be blowing the whistle on any kind of activity that would mean a users data is not being deleted upon their request, especially considering reddits global usage.
By all means investigate, I’m just saying there has yet to be presented any actual evidence. I look forward to seeing whatever you may discover.