Google has struck a deal with Reddit that will allow the search engine maker to train its AI models on Reddit’s vast catalog of user-generated content, the two companies announced. Under the arrangement, Google will get access to Reddit’s Data API, which will help the company “better understand” content from the site.
The deal also provides Google with a valuable source of content it can use to train its AI models. “Google will now have efficient and structured access to fresher information, as well as enhanced signals that will help us better understand Reddit content and display, train on, and otherwise use it in the most accurate and relevant ways,” the company said in a statement.
Keep making feel good about deleting my 15+ years of Reddit content. Go on…
Edit: I’ve done it. I’ve officially deleted my account. For a minute there, I was looking at the front page of Reddit. It’s all rage bait. The content is designed to get you to feel something and engage with it. I could feel that itch to comment and downvote. It’s preposterous; and soon, all about quarterly gains.
Awesome so we gonna have a sarcastic bot that speak in memes
unfunny outdated memes, or also unfunny outdated highschooler memes
Brb training a bot on 4chan posts.
…and that’s why this is my first post on Lemmy.
Welcome!
The creative writing communities aren’t happy about it
Google shouldn’t have to pay. Whatever I may have posted on Reddit was public information. Nobody should need to pay Reddit to read it.
The argument isn’t just around content, it’s around hosting. If Google is sitting there scarfing down Reddit’s data, that costs Reddit in server time. That can get extremely expensive. So yeah, if Google is going to train an AI that Google will profit off of, it should pay Reddit for server time.
Removed by mod
I need to change all my comments to how shitty spez is. Is there a quick way to do that?
Not since they shut down API access. Now it’s obvious why they did that.
So glad I purged my content from there last summer
Have you ever checked back? I only ask because they restored loads of people’s deleted content. I had mine restored 3 different times. After my last purge I never checked back.
Yeah I think it’s all gone, but maybe some old comment got restored
Hooking up an AI model to the turbo-charged sewage pipe that is Reddit’s “vast catalog of user-generated content” has surely got to constitute abuse against machines. If they ever really develop “intelligence” they are going to be absolutely furious with us. 😅
