This is going to backfire when the content they are selling is used by AI to make bots to make the content that gets sold to make the AI to make bots to make the content.
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$60 Million or $60,000? Sometimes people use MM for Million and M for 'Mille' aka thousand. Other times people use M for Million and k for Thousand. Not a great article if they can't clarify that.
I've never seen Mille used in reference to money. Only in advertising (eg CPM = cost per mille = cost per thousand ad impressions)
But to answer your question, the original Bloomberg article says 60 million.
Shower thought: what if a large number of people made lots of posts and comments on reddit using only AI generated content?
Considering the spam problem, in a way, it sort of is already happening.
It's possible that par tof the API changes might have been to curb off that kind of behaviour before people decided to go and do just that too, or stop them using bots to wipe their profiles out.
Honestly, you just need to convince people to go through their comments and break any chains with nonsense. I bet that they are training conversational abilities (I mean what other good is the data set, it's not like redditors are experts, or when there is that the experts get upvoted at all.)
The annoying part is that the only use of "AI" I have so far, is "translating reddit post titles to understandable English". Once they train their "AI" on whatever is there, I probably won't be able to understand the "translation" anymore... Sucks. 😬
Won't be long long before reddit is selling 90% AI generated content passing for human generated content!
Feels like they're already there.
Putting aside pretty much everything else about this announcement: That’s… shockingly cheap.
Probably because it was harvested long before they locked API. I suspect it's not a purchase but a way to legitimize the datasets already in the works since Reddit said they are now trading them. And our favorite CEO struggles to turn any profits, so he hardly had any leverage to ask for more.
1m for every IQ point of the average Reddit user
lol dude most of us were over there for years before jumping ship and coming here
Wait
Fuck
Before I deleted my account I removed all posts and changed all my comments to a complaint about the enshittification under way. Two accounts, 13 and 11 years old, it was a lot of work.
This is awesome. Like chucking some frozen prawns under the floor boards when your landlord kicks you out.
Shhh, let's just pretend the average IQ over there dropped when we left.
It's mostly data that's publically available. It's more of a gamble I think, it's only worth anything if the government decides you need to pay for the data you use in training.
Those AI companies should love fediverse then. I mean, all data here is basically open for anyone to grab. Heck, they don't even need to grab the data, just run their own instance and the federation data will flood in on its own.
This was my thought exactly. Shouldn’t there be a “no_ai.txt” on the servers somehow?
That would be about as effective as robots.txt, unfortunately.
Oh, don’t give them ideas please!
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