Indeed. There are lots of proposals for perfectly portable decentralized user identities, subscriptions that transcend specific instances, and whatnot, but until those things actually arrive that's not the Fediverse we're dealing with. It's a hassle having to switch instances.
There's a broad spectrum between reason and murder. You could tackle them, or bonk them with a stick, or distract them with shiny objects.
you know that a company putting a thing in their terms of service doesn't make it legally binding, right?
And you know that doesn't necessarily imply the reverse? Granting a site a license to use the stuff you post there is a pretty basic and reasonable thing to agree to in exchange for them letting you post stuff there in the first place.
hence why they all suddenly felt the need to update their terms of services
As others have been pointing out to you in this thread, that also is not a sign that the previous ToS didn't cover this. They're just being clearer about what they can do.
Go ahead and refrain from using their services if you don't agree to the terms under which they're offering those services. Nobody's forcing you.
Here's an October 2023 survey on the subject from the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council on the subject of AI adoption. It found very extensive usage for a wide range of needs.
If it lets a person doing job X do twice as much work, that's effectively replacing a person in job X. There's now half as many of those jobs needed.
Rare-earth element is a specific technical term. Lithium is absolutely not among them.
One of the main sources lithium is extracted from is brines. That is, it's already in the water and we take it out.
If we don't have individual transportation how are we ever going to catch up to those goalposts?
You mean before or after all the sites updated their ToS it so that they were legally in the clear to sell user posts to AI training companies?
The ToSes would generally have a blanket permission in them to license the data to third-party companies and whatnot. I went back through historical Reddit ToS versions a little while back and that was in there from the start.
Also in there was a clause allowing them to update their ToS, so even if the blanket permission wasn't there then it is now and you agreed to that too.
Learning from things is a very obviously a completely different process to feeding data into a server farm.
It is not very obviously different, as evidenced by the fact that it's still being argued. There are some legal cases before the courts that will clarify this in various jurisdictions but I'm not expecting them to rule against analysis of public data.
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