Its a bit old, but I just learned it via the retro-dodo article here: https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/
ChatGPT4: tl;dr The universe is bigger than we thought.
ChatGPT5: fuck spez
Wrong company, it would be Gemini in this case
Is it just me or are 60 million a ridiculously small price for that whole dataset?
To be fair it’s a pretty terrible dataset. The AI is just going to say “this” to every question you ask
This.
and “and my axe”
and “rock and stone”
"Reject humanity. Return to monke.
You’re exaggerating of course, but I don’t think it’s terrible at all; the opposite really. It’s likely incredibly useful for creating LLMs with specific knowledge or behavior.
The categorization into subreddits alone opens up so many possible applications. Imagine for example training a conversational AI with data from specific subreddits like science, askscience, biology, physics, astronomy,… or posts by users that frequent such subreddits in order to create sort of an academic AI.
You could do the same for all sorts of topics: Want a sports commentator AI, use sports related subreddits; an AI that supports you in writing a novel, use creative writing subreddits etc. Don’t want your AI to spew political opinions, exclude political subreddits from your data; don’t want it to use offensive language, only use well-moderated subreddits etc.
This presumes that Reddit is populated by so-called experts answering questions and posting in those subs.
But the vast overwhelming truth is that most people pretending to be experts are just regurgitating the answers they heard from another reddit post, and so on, and so on.
You might as well just train your AI on the “confidently incorrect” sub and call it a day.
Or “just Google it”.
Ai:
😭 I’m trying
Yeah and Google already has everything scrapped and indexed
Perhaps, but not worth buying if you can’t make profit or keep it from your competition.
60M is for over almost 20 years of data, but once it’s ingested, google will only want new content. Next year, it’ll be more like 3M if the dataset isn’t poisoned by bots or the AI fad hasn’t collapsed. Reddit will struggle with finances again and users will suffer. At least that’s my prediction.
Spez has already grifted his money out of the initial stock pump so it literally doesn’t matter. Reddit could shut down tomorrow and he’d be happy as a clam.
Yeah, what a load. Though now they can boot his arse and save.
Edited to remove number.
I doubt he’s getting 120M per year. I think that big compensation package was a 1 time deal. That’s more than Satya Nadella makes.
You’re right. Total compensation was $193M for 2023 but that was a lot of stock too. It may have been one time like you said now that they went public. Hopefully enough to retire haha.
the AI fad
LOL. Do you realize that makes you sound like Boomers talking about the internet in the late 90’s and early 00’s?
Haha! Wow I guess so. I’ll keep some shelf space available in the geezer museum next to 3D TV’s, deep fakes, fidget spinners, and my pogs. :D
It currently looks very much like a bubble. After the dot com bubble, the internet didn’t go away, but most companies died off and all the stupid monetisation went bankrupt.
We may be seeing something similar
I wonder if Google’s unlimited legal budget plays a role. Not a lawyer, so probably way off here…
But, for example, reddit’s success in part depends on Google ingesting their data — reddit shows up in Google searches all the time, which can only happen if Google uses reddit’s content. So reddit telling Google “you can’t use our content” doesn’t work, and they need to say something like, “you can use our content for search results but you can’t consume it as training data.”
This is a pretty straightforward statement/request/demand, but one could imagine Google lawyers maliciously complying and throwing their hands up dramatically, claiming “well we use some amount of AI in our search results, so if we can’t use your content for AI training then we can’t risk using it for search results.” Which would, I imagine, really, really hurt reddit (no Google results would be catastrophic I suspect).
So, perhaps the “low” 60M figure is just Google using their leverage.
Or not. As a random person on the Internet, I can say I’m probably not contributing anything meaningful here…
How quickly you forget that half of it is just “I also choose this guy’s wife” and “the narwhal bacon’s at midnight”
Considering it’s all full of Nazis and bots, and if you get to filter all of them out you’re left with reposts and low quality memes followed by comments that represent the hostile side of each of us… I’d say anything over $5 is a good deal for spez.
Now, I hope Google uses this data exclusively for detecting inappropriate answers. Can you imagine it giving answers based on the endless threads i of " I’m not your mate, bro; I’m not your bro, dude…".
I’m personally curious whether Reddit actually has any ability to protect that database. I don’t remember Reddit TOS, but usually those things give them license to use and copy the data, maybe even to sell it, but not actually the copyright on it. So if someone made a Reddit scraper and copied the comments, wouldn’t only the actual commenter be able to sue?
$60M may be reflecting that, in that it’s more a convenience fee to shield Google against individual Redditors going after them than something that Reddit itself could actually sue over.
It’s more than they were making from third party apps, hence the ridiculous API fees.
Can’t wait to see an AI chatbot in my Google searches that behaves like a typical redditor.
Every thing you google is just going to direct you to a link to let me google that for you
I love that site.
“Hey Google AI, could you help me find a way to do _____?”
“Why the hell would you want that? Are you stupid? There’s like 15 better ways to accomplish what I think your peanut brain is trying to accomplish.”
“… nevermind Google.”
This.
I mean one of the most popular search types on Google is <topic + Reddit> so not much would change
Just wait till the LLM starts “singing” randomly to you.
– Hey Google/reddit, what does xxxxxx mean?
–Wtf is people so lazy, Google it yourself it’s only 5 seconds!
–But but, you are Google, are you not?
–Buahaha , haha!
Google: “I’m looking to make an AI that’s incredibly opinionated, confidently incorrect, and prone to circlejerk behaviors.”
Spez: “I mean OpenAI pretty much did that already, but if you want to pay me to recreate that then I got you.”
One thing that doesn’t seem to get brought up is the AI porn angle. Gonewild is pretty big on reddit still. A lot of OnlyFans creators, and general perverts (respect). Reddit wants to commodify this content, so those people are selling the images of their bodies so AI can make porn of random strangers. Kinda fucked when you think about it.
AI be like “stfu regard”
AI be like there things are over they’re
This is the Way.
Oh no, my thousands of identical messages!
Like they don’t have the data prior to the overwrite… These tools need to update over time
God, the taste their AI is about to garner for coconuts.
Steve Huffman looks increasingly douchier and shittier with every passing photo.
What a damn chode. Fuck that guy.
I deleted my comment history after the API exodus. I’m sure they could dig it up if they wanted but at least they’ll have to click like 3 more buttons if they want to train AI on my nonsense.
And this is how Skynet was born.
That one Microsoft Twitter bot turned into a full blown Nazi in just one day.
I can’t even imagine how fucked up and depraved one trained on Reddit data will get.
They have a series of safeguards against that now. They’ve actually taken it in the extreme other direction now where it can’t give you anything without injecting diversity in there somewhere.
Here’s an example. This is what it produced when asking for an image of a German soldier in 1943.
They may be able to alter what it says, but they can’t alter what it thinks.
I hope AI sais fuck Spez a lot:-)
You can be sure the little fucker hired people to filter out that sort of stuff from the data
Can someone point me the way of that bot or whatever that changes all your old Reddit posts before deleting them? I thought I had it saved somewhere but I can’t find it now and have no idea what it’s called.
As part of the deal, spez will personally train the AI Jailbait Model.
60m? Ms got a steal no wonder Reddit can’t monetize
They can have my drunk shitposts. Jokes on them for buying my garbage.
Grateful this is no longer my problem
