It's quite key to the legal strategy of all the LLMs that they do not need a license for their input data. So if they want reddit data they'll just scrape it (w

It's quite key to the legal strategy of all the LLMs that they do not need a license for their input data. So if they want reddit data they'll just scrape it (which is also legally protected). And if they do need a license then reddit does not have one to sell to the AI companies, at least for most of the text on their site. I don't believe it's a reasonable strategy for any platform (except maybe marketplaces like shutterstock) to attempt to charge money for data for machine learning.