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ardi60 ( ardi60@reddthat.com )  to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO

www.bloomberg.com

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Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO

www.bloomberg.com

ardi60 ( ardi60@reddthat.com )  to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago
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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.
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  • WarmSoda ( WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) 
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    Great. Now all the AI bots will just be saying “This” and “came here to say that.”

    • Damage ( Damage@slrpnk.net ) 
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      “Are you me?”

      “Reddit moment”

      • xavier666 ( xavier666@lemm.ee ) 
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        Google Reddit comedy

    • ArmokGoB ( ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) deleted by creator
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      deleted by creator

    • Oha ( Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ) 
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      Thanks for the gold kind stranger

    • loobkoob ( loobkoob@kbin.social ) 
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      “poop knife xDD hehe”

      There’s so much actually great content posted across reddit over the years, it blows my mind that people decided that was something that needed to be mentioned all the time.

      • Hadriscus ( Hadriscus@lemm.ee ) 
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        There are plenty of memorable stories from reddit, and some get mentioned regularly. It’s a culture…

    • Hubi ( Hubi@feddit.de ) 
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      “When does le narwhal bacon?”

      • WanderingVentra ( WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ) 
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        Wow that’s an old one lol

  • forgotmylastusername ( forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml ) 
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    FYI: reddit orphans content. In other words your posts/comments are undeletable.

    I found instances of such late last year by way of search results. I clicked a username to see more posts by that account. The only content on their profile page was a final deletion message about the API changes.

    Their post history was discoverable by using " site:reddit.com" on Google. All of their posts/comments still show up under their username instead of the normal [deleted]. Clicking the username takes you to their empty profile page.

    So what we know from this now is that reddit has been saving original submissions. Whereas before their claim was that only the last edits are stored. Which is why the deletion scipts became a thing. People took it on good faith that we could delete our posts. At some point they stopped doing that. Or perhaps it was all a lie the whole time. Who knows.

    • RoosterBoy ( RoosterBoy@lemm.ee ) 
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      No, that’s Google keeping the content of the pages they scraped at the time they scraped them.

    • mbirth ( mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk ) 
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      This is how I cleaned (most) of my old posts: Searched them via Google. As they’re posted under my username I was able to change them into nonsense before deleting then. Even though they never appeared under my profile anymore.

  • tristan ( tristan@aussie.zone ) 
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    You know how artists can poison their images for AI… We need a way to poison content on Reddit

    • remotelove ( remotelove@lemmy.ca ) 
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      I would say most of the content is already poison.

    • katy ✨ ( cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      i think that’s just called posting on reddit

    • FaceDeer ( FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 
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      If you’re talking about Glaze or Nightshade, those techniques are not proven to be particularly effective. Lots of people want them to work but that doesn’t make it so.

  • BmeBenji (he/him) ( BmeBenji@lemm.ee ) 
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    Alt title: Reddit looking to steal value from their millions of free users

  • Flumpkin ( Flumpkin@slrpnk.net ) 
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    It’s a power grab. They’ll justify control over the training data with intellectual property which keeps it out of the hands of everyday people but they stole the “intellectual property” from us in the first place. Then they’ll control the “means of generation”.

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      I’m just wondering what the hell they’re expecting to teach this AI off Reddit user data. Reddit has been scraped for years and most of what could have been learned has already been used I’d assume.

      Reddit has been more and more video based lately and it feels to me like it is becoming a less algorithmic version of TikTok.

      • athos77 ( athos77@kbin.social ) 
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        Spez has spent his entire time as CEO chasing the latest tech shiny - reddit crypto, reddit NFTs, reddit video a la TikTok. And he’s always managed to do it after the craze has started to peak. So now he’s chasing the latest shiny, reddit AI, starting a full year after everyone else already released their products.

        He’s late yet again, and he’s proven repeatedly that’s he’s failed to understand reddit’s greatest strengths and value. This “reddit AI content” and the IPO is his last chance to get some value out of reddit, and his last chance to make money for nothing because no one is going to hire him in a leadership role ever again. I just wonder if he’s smart enough to understand that, or whether he’s just hoping to get enough money to fully build out and stock his personal doomsday bunker.

  • queermunist she/her ( queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Just think, in 1000 years your body will be long dead but you’ll be forced to live on as a poster! Death is not an option. 😌

  • katy ✨ ( cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    what could go wrong with training your ai based on the posts of the most racist and misogynistic people on the internet?

  • ulkesh ( ulkesh@beehaw.org ) 
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    I so want to see Reddit die. I browsed the site for the first time in 2007. I adored it. Now it is nothing but a cesspool of morons trying to find an echo chamber for their idiocy, led by king of the morons, Spez.

    It’s time for better competition in this space and the Fediverse is one step toward that goal.

  • kingthrillgore ( KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ) 
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    This is why I deleted my posts. Also, 60 million is a jokingly lowball figure.

    I wonder how reddit users feel about this. I wouldn’t know, I DNS blocked the site months ago.

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    deleted by creator

  • GnuLinuxDude ( GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ) 
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    I stopped posting there the moment they pulled the trigger on the API change. I used to like cruising LinuxQuestions and answering people, too.

  • THE MASTERMIND ( THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch ) 
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    I am waiting for an LLM that trained on 4chan it would be pure gold.

    • SheeEttin ( SheeEttin@programming.dev ) 
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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

    • wagesj45 ( wagesj45@kbin.social ) 
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      Good news.

      • THE MASTERMIND ( THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch ) 
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        Not good enough it only trained on /pol/ it seems

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          Fair. The rest of the site is a lot more normal. More being a relative term, of course.

          • THE MASTERMIND ( THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch ) 
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            Uh i don’t think anypart of 4chan is normal they are the kind of people who you will hate IRL

            • wagesj45 ( wagesj45@kbin.social ) 
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              What makes you think that?

              • THE MASTERMIND ( THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch ) 
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                Take a guess

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