discord is a black hole for information

Traditional reasoning says you should prefer open forums like lemmy that are available and searchable to the open web. After all, you’re posting to help people, and that helps people the most. The platform (like reddit) may profit off of it, but that’s fine, they’re providing the platform for you to post. Fair deal.

Plus people coming for high quality information helps the community and topic back. You attract other high quality contributors, the more people use/partake in the topic you are discussing, the platform often improves with the revenue etc. It’s not perfect, but it worked

AI scrapers break all that. The company profiting is the AI company, and they give nothing back. They model just holds all the information in its weights. It doesn’t drive people to the source. Even the platform doesn’t benefit from bot scraping. The addition of high quality data may improve the model on that topic and thus push people to engage in said topic more, but not much, because of how AI’s are trained, while you need some high quality data, a lot more important, especially for lesser known topics, is amount of data.

So as more of the world moves to AI models, I don’t really feel like posting on public forums as much, helping the AI companies get richer, even if I do benefit from AI myself.