They could've saved themselves $60M by just downloading the torrent of the data.
Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
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Re: Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been working on deleting my reddit posts over the past year. The site now feels like it's almost 100% bots, which I find more than a little sad.
There are scripts that can do this all for you in an instant.
Thanks for the pointer! And yes, there are, but I kind of enjoy going through the comment history while deleting. Memories :).
Re: Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
#23This is exactly my point for many years now. Reddit exists because of the free work of the various subreddit communities and their moderators. And in return they get nothing. But the company, the investors and employees will all become rich off of it. It’s weird how no one cares that Reddit isn’t trickling down anything to the people that make the site a success.
Re: Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
#24They could've saved themselves $60M by just downloading the torrent of the data.
Not if you include expected future legal fees. This also seems to imply if you train on Reddit data without a license Reddit will sue you.
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#25This is exactly my point for many years now. Reddit exists because of the free work of the various subreddit communities and their moderators. And in return they get nothing. But the company, the investors and employees will all become rich off of it. It’s weird how no one cares that Reddit isn’t trickling down anything to the people that make the site a success.
You're saying it as if someone from Reddit came into your house and forced you to become a moderator or user who submits content. Is that true? Of course not, people are willingly creating communities and willingly submit content to the site.
Reddit exists because millions of people like it. Reddit also exists because hundreds of developers created it while other people are paying for its infrastructure.
Re: Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
#26This is exactly my point for many years now. Reddit exists because of the free work of the various subreddit communities and their moderators. And in return they get nothing. But the company, the investors and employees will all become rich off of it. It’s weird how no one cares that Reddit isn’t trickling down anything to the people that make the site a success.
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Re: Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
#27How can they license something that they didn’t author? Yes, they have TOS. But training generative AI wasn’t something that existed when ~99% of Reddit’s content was created, hence users could not possibly have consented to it. Besides, at least in Germany, TOS cannot contain regulations that are “surprising” or “unexpected”. Using my content to serve ads is one thing I might expect. But licensing it out for a fee t…
FWIW, they already have been licensing their data for years to social media management platforms (ie SproutSocial, Sprinklr)
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#28Reddit's MO is snark and sarcasm. It's hard for me to imagine a scenario where a LLM trained on reddit would be useful for anything serious. How do they propose to seperate fact from fiction?
I don’t know if it’s just me but Reddit is probably the most toxic, unfriendly community I’ve been in. Anytime I make a comment, it’s immediately downvoted to oblivion if it doesn’t agree with the hive mind, or is unpopular. And if I ask a simple question, it gets downvoted if it’s perceived as “too stupid” or obvious. Maybe it’s just me though
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#29This is exactly my point for many years now. Reddit exists because of the free work of the various subreddit communities and their moderators. And in return they get nothing. But the company, the investors and employees will all become rich off of it. It’s weird how no one cares that Reddit isn’t trickling down anything to the people that make the site a success.
Every year, I pay to play hockey. I pay for new equipment, jerseys, referees and ice time.
And the arena gets paid by selling food to people who come to my games, sell advertising on the boards, beer to fans.
What do I get and why is none of this money trickling down to me?
Clearly I get the enjoyment of being Canadian and playing hockey.
Reditors are no different. None of them were tricked, they participate on the site by writing comments or submitting articles because the get enjoyment out of it.
I don't expect to see a dime from the arena when I play hockey and they make money from it and no redditor expects to see a dime when they participate on the site and the site makes money form it.
If you think its weird that a for profit company is making money and no one is complaining, its because everyone went into the deal knowing exactly what's what. No one was tricked or deceived.
Re: Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
#30This is exactly my point for many years now. Reddit exists because of the free work of the various subreddit communities and their moderators. And in return they get nothing. But the company, the investors and employees will all become rich off of it. It’s weird how no one cares that Reddit isn’t trickling down anything to the people that make the site a success.
I don't see how that is weird at all. Were you paid by ycombinator for your message? People often do things they enjoy doing without receiving a payment for it.