Reddit plans to charge companies to access its API, which many have used to train AI tools; the API will stay free for developers building apps for Reddit users
The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects.
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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some news: Reddit will begin charging the biggest companies for API access, which has been used historically to train the coming wave of LLMs and artificially intelligent programs “It's a good time for us to tighten things up,” CEO Steve Huffman said. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@altryne
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Sigh... as tho reddit cannot be scraped without API. This move to close the internet down to developers who want to enrich ecosystem (Twitter, now Reddit) is a very bad outcome, and I wonder how much of a solution it really offers. https://twitter.com/...
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@r0wdy_
Ham Elliot
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Nobody is going to get a bigger paycheck from this AI shit than the RIAA and firms working on intellectual property cases https://twitter.com/...
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@nytimestech
@nytimestech
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“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Reddit's founder and CEO, Steve Huffman, told @MikeIsaac. “But we don't need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@jason
@jason
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As I predicted, @reddit about to secure a $25-100m bag from every LLM that wants access to their corpus https://twitter.com/...
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@mcwm
Mike Murphy
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they waited too long to do this https://twitter.com/...
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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@Jason @Reddit They're right
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@taylordotbiz
@taylordotbiz
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I, for one, think it's a good idea to build a titanomarchy of new world-striding spider gods from the collective minds of the lamest, most annoying people to ever live. https://twitter.com/...
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@pkafka
Peter Kafka
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Gonna be fascinating. AI folks say they shouldn't get charged to look at things on the web - but then some of them do pay to ingest stuff: e.g. OpenAI pays shutterstock. Meanwhile many content makers/owners will be dismayed to find how little their content is worth. https://twitt…
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@rachelmetz
Rachel Metz
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Gonna be interesting 5 years from now when we see a bunch of LLMs (or whatever we then call it) whose training data basically stops at midway-through-2023 Reddit. https://twitter.com/...
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@jason_kint
Jason Kint
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“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation. There's a lot of stuff on the site that you'd only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.” https://twitter.com/...
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@alice_comfy
Alice
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And this is how these companies become massively more valuable. https://twitter.com/...