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The economic incentives are too stacked. You see companies like reddit signing contracts to sell their user generated data to AI companies[1]. If OpenAI is will
by AlexandrB 2y ago
The economic incentives are too stacked. You see companies like reddit signing contracts to sell their user generated data to AI companies[1]. If OpenAI is willing to pay (probably a large sum) for reddit's data, why would they refrain from exploiting data they're already getting for "free"? This also feels like a rerun of the advertising economy's development and how tracking and data collection became more invasive and more common over time.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/openai-strikes-deal-bring-reddit-content-chatgpt-2024-05-16/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/openai-strikes-deal-br...
- phillipcarter 2y agoThere's several reasons why this may be: 1. Most of the data might be junk, and so it's just not worth it 2. They want paying customers, paying customers don't want this, so they don't offer it for paying customers 3. It's really, really hard to annotate data effectively at that scale. The reason why Reddit data is being bought is because it's effectively pre-annotated. Most users don't follow up with chat responses to give feedback. But people absolutely provide answers and upvotes on forums.