Reddit has struck a $60m deal with Google that lets the search giant train AI models on its posts

https://lemmy.world/post/13903224

Reddit has struck a $60m deal with Google that lets the search giant train AI models on its posts - Lemmy.World

Its a bit old, but I just learned it via the retro-dodo article here: https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/ [https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/]

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
Or “just Google it”.

Ai:

😭 I’m trying

My heel turn as a mod back in the day was having automod remove lmgtfy links
It was a weird day when I recently went to teach someone about lmgtfy and found the website dead. There are clones, but the original was so simple and great.