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Reddit is licensing its content to Google to help train its AI models (www.engadget.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ehhh... shame it's too late but there are nice scripts that can bulk-edit all your posts and comments for people using search engines and ai crawlers to stumble upon. I put info about reddit paywalling 3rd party apps and invited readers to join lemmy instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I found something that was doing that after I thought it was going to actually delete items. I stopped the script and found something to delete. What's the advantage of editing comments? Just to advertising alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

IF
    (COMMENT MARKED AS DELETED) 
OR 
    (COMMENT < 10 WORDS)    
THEN  
    IF (PREVIOUS COMMENT VERSION > 10 WORDS)
    THEN    
         RESTORE PREVIOUS COMMENT VERSION FOR AI LEARNING

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I could imagine google also gets some sort of snapshots to mitigate the risk that after their announcement everyone deletes/modifies their content.. But who knows.