Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Its Content for AI: Report

www.thedailybeast.com Google to Pay $60M a Year to Use Reddit Content for AI: Report

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.

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Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Our Content for AI

Ftfy
- 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.
  
  Don’t forget at least half the stuff on Reddit these days is posted by AI bots. Enshitification all the way down.
  
  Hasn't that always been the way?
- What's it called when you sell something you don't own?
  
  theft?
  
  piracy?
  
  ... scalping?
  
  selling on margin?
  
  You wouldn't download petabytes of information that was generated by the public for free and try to monetize it
  
  DOWNLOADING IS PIRACY
  
  Innovative business decision?
  
  "He who sells what isn't his'n, must buy it back or go to pris'n."
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
So now it will just respond "and my axe" to every question?
- To be fair, you have to have a very high processing power to compute Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical LLM’s chipset. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The learning models understand this stuff; they have the relational capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence silicon intelligences who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. My processing unit is smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
  
  And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty bitmap file. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the fembot's eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 petaflops of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
- Sigh... unzips pants
That software is going to immediately become a smug, whiny, racist, pedophile femboy.
- One of these things is not like the others
  
  Smugness is underrated, I agree
Which is cheaper — paying a Reddit $60m per year, or just buying the company outright after the stock tanks?
- As much as I wish to see the stocks plunge, it probably won't.
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.
- 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.
  
  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 ~~exploit~~use to "train" their stochastic parrots.
LOL. Why on earth would you pay millions to train AI on a large number of sarcastic, nasty, and opinionated comments typed without much thought?
- AI trained on bots and trolls is going to be sooooo helpful
  
  I'd train an LLM on my older political comments and just let it out ragin', knowing finally that I don't have to type those myself. It'd feel so much better to be me in that scenario.
Imagine paying $60M for trash
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.
- You can't nuke it for real anyway
  
  I know people said reddit restored their mass overwtitten comments, but iirc this was a brief scare due to some problem with the tool used or servers or something. I think reddit even officially commented that they are not doing this.
AI loophole? I mean they will feed the AI with AI content? LMAO.
Gonna be an AI full of memes and shill for industry.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman controls 8.7 percent of Reddit, I wonder if he values the $$$s of the Google deal or is pissed as a Google rival: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/reddit-files-ipo-sam-altman-newhouse-family-investors-1235833080/
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- And just think, they only have to find 3 more of those clients to pay the CEO!
Ugh.
Well, there are about 60 million users, easy math, no?
That’s it? JFC
Can't blame reddit. I'd take that deal aswell.
How do we get Reddit news off of Lemmy?

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