Reddit hawks your posts to our AI overlords again, this time to OpenAI
We reported back in February on a deal Reddit had done with a then unnamed AI outfit to open up access to user posts for AI training in return for some $60 million annually. That deal turned out to be with Google, but now Reddit has inked another arrangement with OpenAI.
In a blog post, Reddit outlined the deal but did not disclose how much money was involved. However, it seems there may be differences between the Google and OpenAI deals. With Google, there were explicit references to AI training.
But the OpenAI deal talks about allowing access to «real-time, structured, and unique content from Reddit. This will enable OpenAI’s AI tools to better understand and showcase Reddit content, especially on recent topics.»
That implies OpenAI's models will be able to reference, link to or quote Reddit posts, but it does not seem to explicitly include training future versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT models on Reddit posts.
In return, Reddit with be able to bring «new AI-powered features to redditors and mods.»
For what it's worth, OpenAI posted exactly the same statement on its website. Well, save for one additional comment at the bottom in smaller font.
«OpenAI Disclosure: Sam Altman is a shareholder in Reddit. This partnership was led by OpenAI’s COO and approved by its independent Board of Directors.»
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Well, of course Altman is a shareholder in Reddit. It simply wouldn't be compatible with the broader sense of corporate and technological hegemony if the leading figure in AI didn't also have a stake in key social media.
Anyway, it's not hard to see how deals like this make sense. The training value is obvious enough. There's only so much historical content publicly available on the internet. That's already been scraped by existing models and the various AI outfits are said to be running out of new content with which to train their models.
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