[cruano]

There was already a $60M/year deal between Google and Reddit

[blindriver]

Exactly. And Reddit is doubling down on monetizing content it doesn't create itself. Not only are the mods completely free and unpaid for who curate and hone the best posts for their subreddits, now the subredditors are having their comments monetized by Reddit for free. And the upvoting ensures that high quality data is already reinforcement learning via meatbots.

[fourside]

How do you enforce it? Even if you try doing it through copyright laws a company like DeepSeek is not going to care.