OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts

So they filled reddit with bot generated content, and now they're selling back the same stuff likely to the company who generated most of it.

At what point can we call an AI inbred?

They always were.

Only now they've agreed to pay Reddit for it. This is what their third party lockdown was really all about.

They're helping themselves to your Lemmy comments for free, as that's just how it's designed. If you post anything publicly anywhere, it's getting slurped up by a bot somewhere.

BRB - changing my entire 15 year reddit comment history to "Fuck Spez". LOL.

Some day historians will be able to look back at this moment and be able to determine it was what caused ChatGPT to become horny and weird.

LLMs have been training on Reddit posts since at least 2012. Nothing really new here.

What makes you think that they are not scraping Lemmy too? The only reason they might not be is probably how niche Lemmy and the fediverse are, but I am sure there have been people already doing it.

This form of propaganda is my pet peeve. It's not "your posts" as soon as you put something to public you don't get to eat your cake. It's out there, you shared it. Don't share it if you don't want humanity to ingest and use it.

They now are paying Reddit? I thought they could just scrape for free.

Also, you can not delete anything on the internet. Once something is public there will always be a copy somewhere.

Reddit banned me through IP address or something. Whatever new account i create will be banned within 24hrs even if i don't upvote a single post or comment. I tried with 10 new account all banned and all new email address. So gave up and randomly changed all my good comments. Shifted permanently to lemmy. Missing some of the most niche community. But not so much to return to reddit.

Edit: I didn't even commit any rule violation. Took a too long to change from modded reddit app. I only logged in once. That doesn't amount to blocking me from every using reddit.

Finally found a use for MS Edge, loaded up Nuke Reddit History and removed all comments and posts: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/nuke-reddit-history/bklbcgohenjegdibgmppligaapohkgip

Does this mean I can stop prefacing my AI requests with “According to Reddit…”?

Not my posts. Go ahead, look at what remains. The rest was edited and then deleted.

Fuck you, Steve. Right in the ass.

I didn't delete my comments before nuking my account, but I'm pretty sure the grand majority were shitposts containing ample amounts of smut, gore and other ridiculous over the top shit. So I consider this a win.

Those poor silicon atoms...

But Reddit is full of NSFW content.

Then they will learn that Spez doesn’t get to profit from me anymore.

"Strikes" made me think they were cancelling the deal. Like strike-through, crossed it out, etc. Too bad.

So it's going to be a libtarded libtard AI that doesn't represent the majority of the people, got it.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

OpenAI has signed a deal for access to real-time content from Reddit’s data API, which means it can surface discussions from the site within ChatGPT and other new products.

It’s an agreement similar to the one Reddit signed with Google earlier this year that was reportedly worth $60 million.

The deal will also “enable Reddit to bring new AI-powered features to Redditors and mods” and use OpenAI’s large language models to build applications.

Recently, following news of a partnership between OpenAI and the programming messaging board Stack Overflow, people were suspended after trying to delete their posts.

No financial terms were revealed in the blog post announcing the arrangement, and neither company mentioned training data, either.

That last detail is different from the deal with Google, where Reddit explicitly stated it would give Google “more efficient ways to train models.” There is, however, a disclosure mentioning that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is also a shareholder in Reddit but that “This partnership was led by OpenAI’s COO and approved by its independent Board of Directors.”

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