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…
“We need to closec the api in order to protect our users from being used for ai”
I mean, they never claimed it was to protect users. It was to protect their user’s data from being used without paying Reddit. They didn’t like that AI companies were using Reddit content as a free source of training data, they never gave a shit about their users’ privacy.
This is going to backfire when the content they are selling is used by AI to make bots to make the content that gets sold to make the AI to make bots to make the content.
Shower thought: what if a large number of people made lots of posts and comments on reddit using only AI generated content?
Considering the spam problem, in a way, it sort of is already happening.
It’s possible that par tof the API changes might have been to curb off that kind of behaviour before people decided to go and do just that too, or stop them using bots to wipe their profiles out.
