It's a good question. Right now AI companies are using the data under "fair use" and they may get away with it so Reddit or whomever can't claim it either. (Get

It's a good question. Right now AI companies are using the data under "fair use" and they may get away with it so Reddit or whomever can't claim it either. (Getty Images and the like are going after generative AI not for using training data, but for output.) This proposed policy would say "well, if you're going to use public data for this use, you have to pay a fee because it's really all our data". Basically it's a mandatory licensing fee.