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Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

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Re: Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

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Post by dageshi »

purpleblue wrote: post #5

Someone should create a bot that responds to highly upvoted comments and remind the redditor that Reddit is making money off the comment and the information is being used by AI and they aren't seeing a dime of it.

It was going to get scraped and used by AI anyway? Given that I'm not sure I care that much if reddit makes a bit of cash off it. Honestly, this is the future, if it's publically available on the internet it's going to be scraped and used by AI. The inevitable consequence of which is probably more conversation moves into private places like Discord.

But that's the future we're in, it's not gonna get rolled back.

Re: Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

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Post by salt-thrower »

whoopdedo wrote: post #2

> Google Search is currently expanding the test of a "forums" filter that lets you browse through results from sites with human discussion, like Reddit Yeah, about that whole "human discussion" thing...

Fair point that a lot of Reddit is already astroturfed, but this is definitely the final nail in the coffin. Now SEO is coming for the forums, too. Wonderful.

Re: Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

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Post by Imnimo »

purpleblue wrote: post #5

Someone should create a bot that responds to highly upvoted comments and remind the redditor that Reddit is making money off the comment and the information is being used by AI and they aren't seeing a dime of it.

With only $60M a year to go around, I'm not sure my share of comments would even add up to a full dime anyway. They can have it.

Re: Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

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Post by taion »

steveBK123 wrote: post #9

$60M/year for GOOG to access all their data when they purport to be targeting a $5B valuation at IPO is really cheap. Arguably Reddit's value is it's data, and GOOG is renting it for 1.2%/year?

Google are already indexing Reddit, so this might reflect the incremental value of direct API access plus keeping everyone happy. I would be surprised if Reddit’s threats to block Google’s crawler were all that credible.

Re: Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

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Post by declaredapple »

steveBK123 wrote: post #9

$60M/year for GOOG to access all their data when they purport to be targeting a $5B valuation at IPO is really cheap. Arguably Reddit's value is it's data, and GOOG is renting it for 1.2%/year?

> Arguably Reddit's value is it's data

Reddit has a chicken and egg problem - nobody knows what the value of it's data even is. They've never sold it before. You can sell pet rocks for 1 billion dollars, but nobody will value them if there's been 0 sales. (ask vs bid vs last sale price).

I'm guessing reddit is rushing to sell their data so they can show that their data is worth anything at all.

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