Technology

59118 readers

6622 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

414

Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal (9to5mac.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

61 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal::It’s being reported that a deal has been struck to allow an unnamed large AI company to use Reddit user...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 46 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Putting aside pretty much everything else about this announcement: That’s… shockingly cheap.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 23 points 8 months ago

Probably because it was harvested long before they locked API. I suspect it's not a purchase but a way to legitimize the datasets already in the works since Reddit said they are now trading them. And our favorite CEO struggles to turn any profits, so he hardly had any leverage to ask for more.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's mostly data that's publically available. It's more of a gamble I think, it's only worth anything if the government decides you need to pay for the data you use in training.

[–] twofont@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

1m for every IQ point of the average Reddit user

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

lol dude most of us were over there for years before jumping ship and coming here

Wait

Fuck

[–] deus@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Shhh, let's just pretend the average IQ over there dropped when we left.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Before I deleted my account I removed all posts and changed all my comments to a complaint about the enshittification under way. Two accounts, 13 and 11 years old, it was a lot of work.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

This is awesome. Like chucking some frozen prawns under the floor boards when your landlord kicks you out.