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Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content::Reddit has reportedly made a deal with an unnamed AI company to allow access to its platform’s content for the purposes of AI model training.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'd be very surprised if people weren't already scraping Reddit for this.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, there's /r/SubSimulatorGPT2 that's been running for years... Although that one was at least hilarious to read because at that stage the AI was in the sweet spot of being simultaneously coherent while making total lapses in logic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Didn't forget incredibly racist on multiple occasions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The AI is what was fed into it 😂

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That was the real reason for the API changes last year, apps just got caught in the crossfire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah I thought that was pretty well the established conscientious on the thing. People questioning it confuses me honestly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

it's all but guaranteed. Reminds me of this Computerphile video: https://youtu.be/WO2X3oZEJOA?t=874 TL;DW: there were "glitch tokens" in GPT (and therefore ChatGPT) which undeniably came from Reddit usernames.

Note, there's no proof that these reddit usernames were in the training data (and there's even reasons to assume that they weren't, watch the video for context) but there's no doubt that OpenAI already had scraped reddit data at some point prior to training, probably mixed in with all the rest of their text data. I see no reason to assume they completely removed all reddit text before training. The video suggest reasons and evidence that they removed certain subreddits, not all of reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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