It’s being reported that a deal has been struck to allow an unnamed large AI company to use Reddit user content for training purposes …
The deal is said to be worth around $60M per year, and comes at a time when the company is seeking to maximize its value in the run-up to an IPO.
Bloomberg reports.
Reddit has signed a contract allowing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company to train its models on the social media platform’s content, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The company is said to have disclosed the deal to prospective investors in its initial public offering (IPO).
AI companies like OpenAI have so far been training their large language models by scraping data from the web without seeking permission from either websites or users. That practice is being increasingly questioned, so we’re now starting to see companies seek to enter into deals with websites, paying an annual fee for the right to use their content to train new models.
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