Google to Pay $60M a Year to Use Reddit Content for AI: Report
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The move boosts revenue for Reddit ahead of its planned stock launch.

Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Its Content for AI: Report::The move boosts revenue for Reddit ahead of its planned stock launch.

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      9 months ago

      Reddit getting paid to do fuck-all while their users generate all their content.

      Actually, it’s worse than that because Reddit actively makes the site shittier every month.

      • TheGoldenGod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        Don’t forget at least half the stuff on Reddit these days is posted by AI bots. Enshitification all the way down.

  • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    Literal steal considering how much content is produced and published there. However, bots training bots will be funny to watch and might lead to some interesting AI detection tech

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    Which is cheaper — paying a Reddit $60m per year, or just buying the company outright after the stock tanks?

  • bbkpr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    9 months ago

    Since half or more of reddit is now bots and shills, I don’t imagine the training data is going to be great. That’s fine, Gemini already sucks, so it’ll be hard to make it worse.

    • Dexx1s@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      9 months ago

      The data being generated now sure, but there’s still the years of actually useful data there.

      Then add on the remaining half of comments that are from sensible users and it’s a decent, and still fairly unique, dataset.

      • bbkpr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        There are many, many, many things posted as fact over the years on reddit that are not only untrue, but dangerous or even deadly in the case of some of the most idiotic advice given. I wish good luck telling them all apart to the poor 3rd world contractors the big commercial AI companies exploituse to “train” their stochastic parrots.

  • DrRatso@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I had not nuked my account history, because while reddit went to shit for me, I still used it as an info source via search. And so I wanted to leave my posts/comments in case they add value to someone else, who still uses the platform. But with this, if I am not lazy, I just might. I don’t even care about the AI training bit, rather that it is Google AI.