The thing is, I think the investors are Microsoft/Google and even Apple, the years of data generated will be use by Large Language Model i.e. GPT. so even though the content now on reddit will becomes shit, still the data prior to changing of mods is a treasure for A.I. training. I’m guilty myself since I do use ChatGPT and now Bings AI Chat, it’s awesome, sometimes it’s hallucinating but there it is, we cannot stop this technologies, maybe slow it down thru regulations. It’s already there and it’s up to us on how will we use it.
Probably the aftermath is, those who really cares about the transparency of a community will use Fediverse thus Lemmy, and those who are either ignorant or just don’t care will be in Reddit. there will be subreddit for X, and there will be also Lemmy for X. Same name but different power structure, different principle.
They can already use reddit posts/comments for data mining, there’s nothing stopping them from crawling it as is. That wouldn’t be a big incentive to invest in reddit. I truly think their board is simply trying to cash out and move on, as reddit has yet to really be that profitable, so investors aren’t going to find it an appealing potential for high returns.
The thing is, I think the investors are Microsoft/Google and even Apple, the years of data generated will be use by Large Language Model i.e. GPT. so even though the content now on reddit will becomes shit, still the data prior to changing of mods is a treasure for A.I. training. I’m guilty myself since I do use ChatGPT and now Bings AI Chat, it’s awesome, sometimes it’s hallucinating but there it is, we cannot stop this technologies, maybe slow it down thru regulations. It’s already there and it’s up to us on how will we use it.
Probably the aftermath is, those who really cares about the transparency of a community will use Fediverse thus Lemmy, and those who are either ignorant or just don’t care will be in Reddit. there will be subreddit for X, and there will be also Lemmy for X. Same name but different power structure, different principle.
This is just my hypothesis.
They can already use reddit posts/comments for data mining, there’s nothing stopping them from crawling it as is. That wouldn’t be a big incentive to invest in reddit. I truly think their board is simply trying to cash out and move on, as reddit has yet to really be that profitable, so investors aren’t going to find it an appealing potential for high returns.
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&u=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html
Reddit is only small compared to the entire dataset. They have already scraped reddit so I don’t see any reason why would they have to buy reddit.
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&u=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html