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Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content::Reddit has reportedly made a deal with an unnamed AI company to allow access to its platform’s content for the purposes of AI model training.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Can someone more savvy explain why they couldn't also scrape what we all say here?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

They can and do, but they want the training models to come from highly moderated sources otherwise every AI chatbot would be spewing the most racist parts of 4chan because people would train it that way as a joke.

If you let AI roam freely across the internet, it would only learn porn, sailor moon, dragon Ball z, and nazi germany.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the Microsoft Tay conundrum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Microsoft Bing AI image generator made some really weird porn before they realized what it was being used for...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Anything can, the difference is reddit holds the exclusive rights to user comments on their site, and they've chosen to sell it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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