I wonder if the owners of YCombinator have sold all comments to Big Tech for A.I. training.

And how long before Google and Microsoft add to their T&Cs that all your anonymized email will be used to train their A.I.?

Are all of the messages public and crawlable?

I don’t know why any company would pay. It can’t be that difficult to scrape this site and they already did it indiscriminately for years, violating laws and taking down public libraries and other public resources with no regard for their impact.