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Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's one thing if you're processing and doing work with the data but Reddit will be getting $60,000,000 a year for simple having the data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They can't do the work without the data, though.

Or rather, they can't do the work without the risk of Reddit raising a legal fuss that would cost them more than $60 million. The data itself can already be downloaded for free from various places.