Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Its Content for AI: Report::The move boosts revenue for Reddit ahead of its planned stock launch.

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      5 months ago

      Reddit getting paid to do fuck-all while their users generate all their content.

      Actually, it’s worse than that because Reddit actively makes the site shittier every month.

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        5 months ago

        Don’t forget at least half the stuff on Reddit these days is posted by AI bots. Enshitification all the way down.

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    5 months ago

    I had not nuked my account history, because while reddit went to shit for me, I still used it as an info source via search. And so I wanted to leave my posts/comments in case they add value to someone else, who still uses the platform. But with this, if I am not lazy, I just might. I don’t even care about the AI training bit, rather that it is Google AI.

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    5 months ago

    Which is cheaper — paying a Reddit $60m per year, or just buying the company outright after the stock tanks?

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    5 months ago

    Since half or more of reddit is now bots and shills, I don’t imagine the training data is going to be great. That’s fine, Gemini already sucks, so it’ll be hard to make it worse.

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    5 months ago

    LOL. Why on earth would you pay millions to train AI on a large number of sarcastic, nasty, and opinionated comments typed without much thought?