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OpenAI and Reddit introduced a partnership on Thursday that may enable OpenAI to floor Reddit discussions in ChatGPT and for Reddit to carry AI-powered options to its customers. The partnership will “allow OpenAI’s instruments to higher perceive and showcase Reddit content material, particularly on current subjects,” each corporations mentioned in a joint assertion. As a part of the settlement, OpenAI may also grow to be an promoting companion on Reddit, which implies that it’ll run adverts on the platform.
The deal is just like the one which Reddit signed with Google in February, and which is reportedly price $60 million. A Reddit spokesperson declined to reveal the phrases of the OpenAI deal to Engadget and OpenAI didn’t reply to a request for remark.
OpenAI has been more and more hanging partnerships with publishers to get knowledge to proceed coaching its AI fashions. In the previous few weeks alone, the corporate has signed offers with the Monetary Occasions and Dotdash Meredith. Final yr, it additionally partnered with German writer Axel Springer to coach its fashions on information from Politico and Enterprise Insider within the US and Bild and Die Welt in Germany.
Beneath the brand new association, OpenAI will get entry to Reddit’s Knowledge API, which, the corporate mentioned, will present it with “actual time, structured, and distinctive content material from Reddit.” It isn’t clear what AI-powered options Reddit will construct into its platform because of the partnership. A Reddit spokesperson declined to remark.
Final yr, having access to Reddit’s knowledge, a wealthy supply of actual time, human generated, and infrequently high-quality data, turned a contentious subject after the corporate introduced that it will begin charging builders to make use of its API. In consequence, dozens of third-party Reddit purchasers had been pressured to close down and 1000’s of subreddits went darkish in protest. On the time, Reddit stood its floor and mentioned that giant AI corporations had been scraping its knowledge with no cost. Since then, Reddit has been monetizing its knowledge by hanging such offers with Google and OpenAI, whose progress in coaching their AI fashions relies on accessing it.
OpenAI strikes deal to place Reddit posts in ChatGPT
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