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- technology@lemmy.ml
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.
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
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html
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
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html
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
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html