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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by BeFlatXIII on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:30AM (#36213381)
Isn't this mostly closing the barn door after the horse left? The AI companies already have their data. It may grow stale, but the bulk of the corpus has already been ingested. Either that or they do old-fashioned scraping.
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by jollofricepeas on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:39AM (#36213527)
Depends on the model but that HuggingFace blog post on Falcon was just released in the last couple of days where they mention which models are using Reddit.

Reddit content is actively being pillaged by LLMs.

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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by fkyoureadthedoc on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:30AM (#36214382)
The web is open, the site is available to anyone with a computer and internet connection. LLMs aren't pillaging anything, they're using it as intended. By this definition Google has pillaged the internet far longer and made a lot more money.
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by nkozyra on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @03:37PM (#36218023)
It's not "Reddit content" it's content posted on Reddit. It's an important distinction as hosting the content is the reason the business exists at all.
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