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.
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.
Why would they delete for real something they store? Especially if the user agreement most likely doesn’t require them to do that.
Many people dont actually delete, but edit the content. Also, even if the data stays and gets used for training, so be it, not more you can do about it, at least I tried. But mass purging your account history still makes the site worse for searched topics and is the last bastion of resistance after shuffling off that cesspool.
$60M/yr so Google can train its AI how to be obnoxious edgelords.
And just think, they only have to find 3 more of those clients to pay the CEO!
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
Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Our Content for AI
Ftfy
What’s it called when you sell something you don’t own?
Innovative business decision?
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theft?
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piracy?
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… scalping?
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selling on margin?
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“He who sells what isn’t his’n, must buy it back or go to pris’n.”
You wouldn’t download petabytes of information that was generated by the public for free and try to monetize it
DOWNLOADING IS PIRACY
How the turn tables
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?
So now it will just respond “and my axe” to every question?
Sigh… unzips pants
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 😎
How do we get Reddit news off of Lemmy?
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
Can’t blame reddit. I’d take that deal aswell.
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.
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/
Ugh.
AI loop? I mean they will feed the AI with AI content? LMAO.
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.
Gonna be an AI full of memes and shill for industry.
Imagine paying $60M for trash
