Let’s say you find a subreddit with a very interesting guide that contains no private information.
What’s the legality of copy / pasting that text over here? And if it is reworded, manually or with chat gpt?
The assumption here is that it would be done manually without scraping.
Edit: it looks like Reddit does not help the copyright and there wouldn’t be massive issues if we created a community to copy over posts with useful guides and tutorials. I can’t create it since I’m not on lemmy.world and wouldn’t have time to moderate it, but I would contribute if a community like that existed.
The legality isn’t a question that can really be answered, because there’s no precedent for copying things from one forum to another, and it’s very unlikely that you’re going to get sued because there’s no money involved here. The OP from the reddit post isn’t making money from that post, and you’re not making money from copying it.
Ethically, I think it’s fine if you’re diligent about citing your sources.
I have seen many stack overflow clones that copy the question and all the answers and pretend to be fresh content.
Also what’s legal for one isn’t legal for another. And what’s illegal for one is totally fine for another. See: American cannabis laws. I don’t even use it, but it’s hilarious that it’s illegal there.