{"id":184547,"date":"2024-03-09T01:38:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/mysterious-entity-paying-reddit-60-million-to-train-ai-with-users-posts"},"modified":"2024-03-09T01:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:38:52","slug":"mysterious-entity-paying-reddit-60-million-to-train-ai-with-users-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/mysterious-entity-paying-reddit-60-million-to-train-ai-with-users-posts","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Entity Paying Reddit $60 Million to Train AI With Users\u2019 Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-entity-paying-reddit-60-million-to-train-ai-with-users-posts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Underlying the storm of hype and funding in the AI sector right now is a scarce resource: data, created by old-fashioned humans, that\u2019s needed to train the huge models like ChatGPT and DALL-E that generate text and imagery.<\/p>\n<p>That demand is causing all sorts of drama, from lawsuits <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/john-grisham-furious-ai\" class=\"\">by authors<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/openai-content-new-york-times-lawsuit\" class=\"\">news organizations<\/a> that say their work was used by AI companies without their permission to the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-trained-ai-generated-data-interview\" class=\"\">looming question<\/a> of what happens when the internet fills up with AI-generated content and AI creators are forced to use <em>that<\/em> to train future AI.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, it\u2019s also fueling new business deals as AI developers rush to lock down repositories of human-generated work that they can use to train their AI systems. Look no further than this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-02-16\/reddit-is-said-to-sign-ai-content-licensing-deal-ahead-of-ipo?sref=YfHlo0rL\" class=\"\">wild scoop from <em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>: that an undisclosed AI outfit has struck a deal to pay Reddit $60 million <em>per year<\/em> for access to its huge database of users\u2019 posts \u2014 perhaps the surest sign yet that user data is the key commodity in the AI gold rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underlying the storm of hype and funding in the AI sector right now is a scarce resource: data, created by old-fashioned humans, that\u2019s needed to train the huge models like ChatGPT and DALL-E that generate text and imagery. That demand is causing all sorts of drama, from lawsuits by authors and news organizations that say [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}