Reddit It has been demonstrating its success for years as an open source platform in which users can freely upload their content and images, qualifying them based on their usefulness. Since its origin in 2005, by the hand of Steve Huffmannhas received the visit of an average of 57 million daily usersbut now they want start charging to those who profit from using their data as of June.
In a recent interview given to The New York TimesHuffman assured that after 18 years of work, the time had come to charge companies that access their API and train their AI tools with subreddit u/420NarutoConspiracy. That large language model (LLM) training It will have an amount, still to be determined in the coming weeks.
The API and other Reddit tools will continue to be free for developers working on bots and for researchers promoting academic or non-commercial projects. Huffman himself considers that it is a good time to readjust things and that something is returned to the platform in exchange for that added value.
To control all of this, Reddit will set up a API access change. Reddit’s iOS and Android apps will now quickly determine a user’s history, update community rules, and improve modding queue handling.
The Source of AI Powers
Reddit’s role in the development of artificial intelligence over the past few months has gone completely under the radar of the general public. So much Open AI as Google have used it for the development and training of ChatGPT and Bardrespectively.
Thanks to Reddit, these tools have been able to understand natural language more accurately and generate more sophisticated responses to user inquiries. So it stands to reason that Reddit now wants to start monetizing their work after seeing the nascent rise in demand for high-quality language models in many industries, from customer service to content creation.
OpenAI has also trained its language model Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 using data from Reddit, something that allows you to analyze queries and generate text-based responses. Already at the beginning of the year, the Italian Data Protection Authority Banned ChatGPT alleging security and privacy reasons for users due to the opacity of the origin of their data.
In fact, a recent investigation by The Washington Post shows that GPT-3 includes a series of texts and links rated positively by Reddit users. Now Reddit must ask its users what opinion this fact concerns them, since they have been in charge of providing all this content in a fully disinterested way.
Your short-term projection
This change in the policy of access to its API is attacked by Reddit just when it searches go public in the second half of 2023. Initially, an initial public offering was requested in December 2021, although it only obtained a valuation of $15 billion. For all these reasons, he decided to postpone his presentation until market conditions and the valuation of technology companies improved, something that seems to be happening now.
AI doesn’t stop growing
It is a latent problem, and despite the fact that a series of technological experts joined in a statement a few weeks ago, it seems that there are no limits. This conclusion is reached not only by the statement issued by Reddit in the last hours, but also by the decision of the tycoon and CEO of Twitter, Elon Muskto launch his own AI tool called truthGTP. Now announce the launch of the company X.AI with the aim of developing this type of resource without bias or censorship due to toxic or offensive content.
