Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6JTPT)
Image: The Verge Google is getting AI training data from Reddit as part of a new partnership between the two companies. In an update on Thursday, Reddit announced it will start providing Google more efficient ways to train models."
The collaboration will give Google access to Reddit's data API, which delivers real-time content from Reddit's platform. This will provide Google with an efficient and structured way to access the vast corpus of existing content on Reddit," while also allowing the company to display content from Reddit in new ways across its products.
When Reddit CEO Steve Huffman spoke to The Verge last year about Reddit's API changes and the subsequent protests, he said, The API usage is about covering costs and data licensing is a new...