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Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO::Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public offering.
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Seems pretty clear why the apis were shut down for apps
They were transparent about it. AI and gatekeeping the user generated comments was the deciding factor to close the API and that’s what they told the public.
I can’t remember if the word at the time was that they were trying to stop the calls from affecting performance or they wanted the juicy data all for themselves
IIRC that was not the case. They very publicly blamed 3rd party apps, which was both disingenuous and not transparent.
Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html
I can’t speak to the article that you’ve posted several times due to the paywall, but I can speak to the language and the antagonistic attitude they actually used during the entire debacle. Placing explicit blame on third party apps like Apollo, Sync, Boost, etc.- that was the argument used. It doesn’t matter what the real reason was. They were publicly placing blame on small fish instead of the AI monster that was stealing all of their content and bandwidth
I don’t think that’s true. If I remember correctly it was just obvious what they were trying to do. They were never transparent
That is absolutely not the case. They stated a lot of different reasons, ranging from “these freeloading third party developers are making money off our hard work and should be paying” to “we’ve been doing this for free and it costs us a lot of money.”
What you’re thinking of, is the fact that everyone was well aware of the truth, and the fact that they were just butt hurt about the fact that AI was being trained on the data and they didn’t get a cut.
So they did the same thing, and just fucked everyone over.
Long-awaited, said no one. Is AI going to fabricate even more of the bullshit on reddit then?
Is this dead Internet theory?
You want to see dead internet theory, go browse top all time on any subreddit that used to allow submissions from gfycat. It’s a wasteland.
What happened to gfycat?
They shut it down last September. It’s nsfw spinoff redgifs is still up.
It died
The shitshow that is Reddit IPO is long-awaited.
Problem is Reddit content and votes aren’t all human so unless they kept a record of which parts are just chatbots and which votes were faked its not exactly useful to train on in a pure sense.
Considering the disinformation wars and botnets between the big countries its hard to even get a idea of what people really think and what is bullshit and what isn’t.
In any case I’m glad reddit has fucked themselves. This small corner of sanity is a bastion in a shit blizzard.
I’ve been on reddit, I don’t know that I would like to use a LLM trained on much of the content there (excluding tech/DIY space)
gpt3/4 are already trained on reddit data. Not reddit data exclusively, but there’s a lot of it in there.
Reddit is actually pretty decent for training llms. Funny enough an ai finetuned on 4chan does better in intelegence benchmarks.
Source? Or BS?
Sorry truth benchmarks not intellegence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM
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“Finetuned”, “Intelegence”. Oh the irony.
Focus on what is being said, not how it is said. The comment is silly but its usage of non-standard spelling has jack shit to do with it, the issue is the content.
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No thanks. Im going to go ahead and focus on what I choose. But thanks for your input.
Translation: “No thanks. I’m going to keep irrationally associating lack of literacy with stupidity, even if both things are orthogonal.”
That’s the real irony, isn’t it? Actually two instances of irony, as it shows that you have both traits that you’re incorrectly associating together.
Then, second request: could you please be a dead weight elsewhere? You’ll probably find more suitable company for your lack of basic rationality in Reddit.
Now I wish I could remember what the nonsense I replaced all of my content with before I deleted my account.
I used some text telling Spez he was a greedy little pigboy and to train his AI with that, if I recall correctly.
Aww man, why did I not think of doing that!?
I used text from a random syllable generator intended for constructed languages.
They say it’s $60 million on an annualized basis. I wonder who’d pay that, given that you can probably scrape it for free.
Maybe it’s the AI act in the EU. That might cause trouble in that regard. The US is seeing a lot of rent-seeker PR, too, of course. That might cause some to hedge their bets.
Maybe some people had not realized that yet, but limiting fair use does not just benefit the traditional media corporations but also the likes of Reddit, Facebook, Apple, etc. Making “robots.txt” legally binding would only benefit the tech companies.
So what’s the best way to scrub your reddit comments and posts?
