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.
Wheres my cut?
…and that’s why this is my first post on Lemmy.
When this current “AI” bubble bursts, Reddit will be left with nothing. They sold what goodwill they had for a handful of magic beans.
Spez: we want to sell our users’ content to anyone with a good price.
Staff: but our users will rage and delete their content.
Spez: not if we remove the API.
is it Reddit’s content though?
It’s content that Reddit users generated which apparently is theirs to sell.
From the TOS/EULA, the content belongs to each user, they just license it to Reddit to use as it pleases.
So it’s user generated content that is a product for Reddit to sell, like most big tech companies do, as I said.