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Reddit internal search engine is trash, googling it is the only good way to find a thread on this platform
Probably working on a new Google-esque search engine replacement called “searchit”… either that, or “search by Bing”… I have spoken evil aloud and I am not proud. My soul withers and dies.
So they’re still concerned with AI training from the data on their site which funny enough was the supposed reasoning behind the whole API price change that started 3rd part app shutdown shit show. It’s almost like they where being disingenuous about why they needed to suddenly start charging a massive sum for a formerly free service…
Appending reddit to google search has become the only way to get meaningful search results, without it it’s a shitshow of clickbait garbage, I can’t imagine what it will become if it’s not allowed anymore to index reddit data.
I understand companies not wanting data to be scraped for AI training for free, it’s not only reddit according to the article, also news sites, I think it’s a legit concern.
I believe at this point governments should wake up and regulate the matter of AI training globally, leaving it to individual companies will only damage users all over the world.
Interesting thought: Google wants (needs) reddit’s content, and reddit wants to IPO. Why doesn’t Google just buy reddit? It’s pocket change to Google, really, gets them what they want (content), gets reddit what they want (money).
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Washington Post reported Friday that Reddit might cut off Google and force users to log in to Reddit itself to read anything, if it can’t reach deals with generative AI companies to pay for its data.
“Nothing is changing,” Reddit spokesperson Courtney Geesey-Dorr told The Verge, adding that the Post would soon be correcting its story.
The publication now writes that if Reddit can’t get AI to play ball, the company may block Google and Bing’s search crawlers, which means Reddit posts wouldn’t show up in search results.
“In terms of crawlers, we don’t have anything to share on that topic at the moment,” Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge, clarifying that the company’s earlier “nothing is changing” comment only applied to logins.
(In my June interview with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, he said that “we’re in talks” with AI companies about the pricing changes.
The Washington Post’s report wasn’t just focused on Reddit — it’s about how more than 535 news organizations have opted to block their content from being scraped by companies like OpenAI to help train products such as ChatGPT.
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