Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal::It’s being reported that a deal has been struck to allow an unnamed large AI company to use Reddit user…
This is going to backfire when the content they are selling is used by AI to make bots to make the content that gets sold to make the AI to make bots to make the content.
That’s how little they got‽ Holy shit. That’s the steal of the fucking century for all that content. Reddit clearly puts the same stock in its negotiators as it does its 3rd party ecosystem. Anyone who values them more than maybe 2x this price for their IPO is a fucking idiot. Forget Trump’s Art of the Deal. spez needs to write a book.
“We need to closec the api in order to protect our users from being used for ai”
I mean, they never claimed it was to protect users. It was to protect their user’s data from being used without paying Reddit. They didn’t like that AI companies were using Reddit content as a free source of training data, they never gave a shit about their users’ privacy.
This is also slightly off. It was primarily to eliminate third party apps from the existing landscape. Reddit want money from users in one of two ways:
- Use their app and pay with your data via invasive tracking and advertising.
- Pay for a third party app that pays them for API access.
Due to the extortionate pricing, (2) was only ever hypothetical. In reality there was no sustainable model for this for any third party app, even as a non-profit.
The case around AI does exist, but it was smoke and mirrors for Reddit pulling the same nonsense that Twitter did once they realized they might get away with it, regardless of the short term damage it would do to their public image.
I think the 3rd party apps very a nice bonus but considering the timing I’m pretty sure the AI boom was the main reason.
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I mean, yeah, doesn’t everyone?
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Shower thought: what if a large number of people made lots of posts and comments on reddit using only AI generated content?
Considering the spam problem, in a way, it sort of is already happening.
It’s possible that par tof the API changes might have been to curb off that kind of behaviour before people decided to go and do just that too, or stop them using bots to wipe their profiles out.
Honestly, you just need to convince people to go through their comments and break any chains with nonsense. I bet that they are training conversational abilities (I mean what other good is the data set, it’s not like redditors are experts, or when there is that the experts get upvoted at all.)
Putting aside pretty much everything else about this announcement: That’s… shockingly cheap.
1m for every IQ point of the average Reddit user
lol dude most of us were over there for years before jumping ship and coming here
Wait
Fuck
Those AI companies should love fediverse then. I mean, all data here is basically open for anyone to grab. Heck, they don’t even need to grab the data, just run their own instance and the federation data will flood in on its own.
Oh, don’t give them ideas please!
Remember kids, don’t delete your account. Use scripts to replace all of your posts and comments with nonesense. If there is an option in your script to feed itba “dictionary”, I highly suggest using books from the public domain like “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D. H. Lawrence. Replace all images and video links with Steam Boat Willie.
