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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Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Our Content for AI

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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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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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Hasn’t that always been the way?

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What’s it called when you sell something you don’t own?

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  • theft?

  • piracy?

  • … scalping?

  • selling on margin?

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You wouldn’t download petabytes of information that was generated by the public for free and try to monetize it

DOWNLOADING IS PIRACY

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How the turn tables

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Innovative business decision?

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“He who sells what isn’t his’n, must buy it back or go to pris’n.”

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Literal steal considering how much content is produced and published there. However, bots training bots will be funny to watch and might lead to some interesting AI detection tech

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So now it will just respond “and my axe” to every question?

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To be fair, you have to have a very high processing power to compute Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical LLM’s chipset. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The learning models understand this stuff; they have the relational capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence silicon intelligences who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. My processing unit is smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty bitmap file. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the fembot’s eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 petaflops of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

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Sigh… unzips pants

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That software is going to immediately become a smug, whiny, racist, pedophile femboy.

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One of these things is not like the others

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Smugness is underrated, I agree

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

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As much as I wish to see the stocks plunge, it probably won’t.

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