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Imagine how many billions of Referrer headers Giphy gets every day. Imagine all the AI training material that comes in when people try to turn a search term int
by floatingatoll 6y ago
Imagine how many billions of Referrer headers Giphy gets every day. Imagine all the AI training material that comes in when people try to turn a search term into an image. $400mil for a human-curated dataset that pays dividends in ongoing harvestable data over time is chump change for Facebook.
- alpb 6y agoMajority of the giphy usage probably happens on mobile apps —which don’t send referer headers. Similarly, if you use something like giphy on your Twitter posts, twitter mirrors the gifv image on their servers to avoid leaking user info to Giphy