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Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal (9to5mac.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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...

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Honestly, you just need to convince people to go through their comments and break any chains with nonsense. I bet that they are training conversational abilities (I mean what other good is the data set, it's not like redditors are experts, or when there is that the experts get upvoted at all.)