Reddit debate: does posting publicly equal consent to AI training on your words?
gareth789 · reddit · 2026-09-07
Reddit user gareth789 opens a debate on whether publicly posting content implies consent to AI training.
Their position: writing an answer publicly to help others is one decision; having it reused to build a paid AI system is another, and training arguably needs its own permission. They concede that public knowledge has always been reused in ways authors didn't anticipate, making the line hard to draw.
The post asks readers where they'd set the boundary, and discloses that the author works on an AI project researching views on training data — and that the post itself was AI-drafted.
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