The arrangement, announced Thursday, will also give Reddit access to Google AI models for improving its internal site search and other features.
    • bobburger@fedia.io
      69·
      3 months ago

      To be fair it’s a pretty terrible dataset. The AI is just going to say “this” to every question you ask

    • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
      15·
      3 months ago

      Perhaps, but not worth buying if you can’t make profit or keep it from your competition.

      60M is for over almost 20 years of data, but once it’s ingested, google will only want new content. Next year, it’ll be more like 3M if the dataset isn’t poisoned by bots or the AI fad hasn’t collapsed. Reddit will struggle with finances again and users will suffer. At least that’s my prediction.

      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        7·
        3 months ago

        Spez has already grifted his money out of the initial stock pump so it literally doesn’t matter. Reddit could shut down tomorrow and he’d be happy as a clam.

        • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
          7·
          3 months ago

          Haha! Wow I guess so. I’ll keep some shelf space available in the geezer museum next to 3D TV’s, deep fakes, fidget spinners, and my pogs. :D

        • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          3 months ago

          It currently looks very much like a bubble. After the dot com bubble, the internet didn’t go away, but most companies died off and all the stupid monetisation went bankrupt.

          We may be seeing something similar

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
      12·
      3 months ago

      I wonder if Google’s unlimited legal budget plays a role. Not a lawyer, so probably way off here…

      But, for example, reddit’s success in part depends on Google ingesting their data — reddit shows up in Google searches all the time, which can only happen if Google uses reddit’s content. So reddit telling Google “you can’t use our content” doesn’t work, and they need to say something like, “you can use our content for search results but you can’t consume it as training data.”

      This is a pretty straightforward statement/request/demand, but one could imagine Google lawyers maliciously complying and throwing their hands up dramatically, claiming “well we use some amount of AI in our search results, so if we can’t use your content for AI training then we can’t risk using it for search results.” Which would, I imagine, really, really hurt reddit (no Google results would be catastrophic I suspect).

      So, perhaps the “low” 60M figure is just Google using their leverage.

      Or not. As a random person on the Internet, I can say I’m probably not contributing anything meaningful here…

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      I’m personally curious whether Reddit actually has any ability to protect that database. I don’t remember Reddit TOS, but usually those things give them license to use and copy the data, maybe even to sell it, but not actually the copyright on it. So if someone made a Reddit scraper and copied the comments, wouldn’t only the actual commenter be able to sue?

      $60M may be reflecting that, in that it’s more a convenience fee to shield Google against individual Redditors going after them than something that Reddit itself could actually sue over.

    • trolololol@lemmy.world
      01·
      3 months ago

      Considering it’s all full of Nazis and bots, and if you get to filter all of them out you’re left with reposts and low quality memes followed by comments that represent the hostile side of each of us… I’d say anything over $5 is a good deal for spez.

      Now, I hope Google uses this data exclusively for detecting inappropriate answers. Can you imagine it giving answers based on the endless threads i of " I’m not your mate, bro; I’m not your bro, dude…".

  • ThyTTY@lemmy.world
    37·
    3 months ago

    Can’t wait to see an AI chatbot in my Google searches that behaves like a typical redditor.

  • Endorkend@kbin.social
    18·
    3 months ago

    And this is how Skynet was born.

    That one Microsoft Twitter bot turned into a full blown Nazi in just one day.

    I can’t even imagine how fucked up and depraved one trained on Reddit data will get.

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 months ago

    Can someone point me the way of that bot or whatever that changes all your old Reddit posts before deleting them? I thought I had it saved somewhere but I can’t find it now and have no idea what it’s called.

    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
      151·
      3 months ago

      They keep copies of posts because people who mass edited their posts saw them reverted or have people reply still as if they were not edited.

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        I had read that with some people, is was a delay from their server instance between read/write and in the end the changes did end up sticking, but I don’t know if that was true. A lot of people were mass editing at the same time, and since editing isn’t something that happens super frequently, it might have less priority in the stack and caused backups.

  • stanleytweedle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    I deleted my comment history after the API exodus. I’m sure they could dig it up if they wanted but at least they’ll have to click like 3 more buttons if they want to train AI on my nonsense.

    • kholby@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      Before:

      SELECT * FROM `comments` WHERE is_deleted=0;

      After:

      SELECT * FROM `comments`;
  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    8·
    3 months ago

    Google: “I’m looking to make an AI that’s incredibly opinionated, confidently incorrect, and prone to circlejerk behaviors.”

    Spez: “I mean OpenAI pretty much did that already, but if you want to pay me to recreate that then I got you.”

    • GorGor@startrek.website
      1·
      3 months ago

      One thing that doesn’t seem to get brought up is the AI porn angle. Gonewild is pretty big on reddit still. A lot of OnlyFans creators, and general perverts (respect). Reddit wants to commodify this content, so those people are selling the images of their bodies so AI can make porn of random strangers. Kinda fucked when you think about it.