Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site

> Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how our data is displayed and what it’s used for ...

I know that per EULA (or whatever it's called) the contributions we do on reddit become their data. However, reading statements like these still leave a sour taste in my mouth, without the people's discussions and contributions, they wouldn't have anything to sell for profit.

I'm fine with msft crawling my reddit data for free

And I’m fine with not having a reddit account.

They can buy it, just like they did with GitHub, LinkedIn. You need data to train those AI models.

Reddit will in turn be paying the people who posted the content, right?

I'm sure spez will deliver the checks in person monthly. He can talk to the users about their comments he edited recently, and encourage them to join communities like jailbait.