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An Expanded Partnership with Reddit

• minimaxir 3y ago
  This confirms that Google was the mystery buyer of the $60M licensing deal with Reddit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39404051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39404051 ...in which case, $60M seems low? Google would get more value than that from it.
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• jerry80 3y ago
  What is Google paying for, exactly? Reddit's content is already public. Even free tools like F5Bot are already continuously downloading all of Reddit, and I'm sure they aren't paying $60M.
  • EA-3167 3y ago
    I suspect they're paying to avoid any future lawsuits or changes in the laws. Realistically they only need to scrape Reddit once, because the vast majority of useful training data will be years in the past. If this deal lasts for more than a year I'll be shocked, and like you wonder even more just what the hell they're buying.