Both Google and OpenAI have cut deals with Reddit to train their AI models on its posts.
Training AI to be even more racist and misogynistic, cool.
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Profitable, and unusable!
Welcome to the Web 2.0 reddit
Our entire economy is being propped up by the AI grift now. 8 of the 10 largest companies by market cap are either spending all of their CapEx on training AI or selling the hardware necessary to do it (the only exceptions are Saudi Aramco and Berkshire Hathaway). This is just an insane funneling of money into one industry that can only result in one of two outcomes- 1. AGI is achieved and whoever wields it will have godlike power or 2. there is a market crash the likes of which we have never seen before. Guess which is more likely.
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if google and openai are training bots on that shithole.. oh man we're in for a world of hurt where you can't tell whether someone is a lib or just a bot anymore
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the company reported a profit of $29.9 million
while “other” revenue reached $33.2 million on account of “data licensing agreements signed earlier this year.
Only profitable by exploiting "their" content to LLM farms
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Too bad it's utter and complete shit to actually try to use now.
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looks like the Twitter advertisers have found a new home lol
What about the time when users donated to the site by buying reddit gold? Wasn't the progress bar mostly full back then? Or am I misremembering
bit idea: sell reddit to another billionaire, they ruin the site, and it finally causes class consciousness to arise when they realize billionaires ruin everything they touch
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Amazing, all they had to do was turn into Facebook! Who knew?
I wonder what is a split between native/astroturfed advertisement (with included pisrael bots) and posts marked as advertisement
FUCK.
death to reddit
but.. how? how are so many people still using that piece of shit site?
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How unfortunate. I have fantasies of Reddit going bankrupt and all the shitty takes that have ever been posted on that site for the past 20 years getting lost forever. Then all the leftists on there get herded here to Hexbear (and also Lemmy/Lemmygrad, I guess). But of course, someone would tell the insufferable Reddit masses to "go use Lemmy," spawning another abomination like Lemmy.World.
We did it, Reddit.
how many of those are cia and israeli bots though?
And more shit than ever!
No it fucking doesn’t.
I visited the Deltarune Subreddit recently and all I saw were people reposting the same tired old "joke" over and over.
No wonder Reddit is great data for LLMs, the people using the site are basically indistinguishable from one.
CIA funding finally is coming through.
I wonder how long it will take for them to actually make back as much money as they lost. You know, actually be 'profitable'.
This is so sad
Yeah right
But at what cost?
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