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Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by VITecNet@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Instead you're posting to the Fediverse, which is even more open for use by third parties.

[–] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yea, but it'll be open forever, nobody can turn off an app overnight and profit from it.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Right. But my point is that they can profit from it. The issue lots of folks seem to be having is "how dare Reddit make money using something I did!", and that issue is even worse for the Fediverse since lots of companies can be doing it.

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And what value is a commodity that is available to everyone?

I don't disagree with your point but I'm sure it couldn't be sold for as much as when it's a limited resource.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The value comes from the work that can be done with it. If you can train an AI off it then it's worth something.

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's one thing if you're processing and doing work with the data but Reddit will be getting $60,000,000 a year for simple having the data.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

They can't do the work without the data, though.

Or rather, they can't do the work without the risk of Reddit raising a legal fuss that would cost them more than $60 million. The data itself can already be downloaded for free from various places.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Its obscure enough that I don’t think it’s being sought out by AI companies. The nature of federated instances should make it a bit more challenging to pull a complete data set too

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Not so obscure that Meta isn't paying attention and planning for interoperation, and Meta is one of the biggest players in the AI development field.

A complete data set isn't required, just a comprehensive one.