Your Reddit posts, OpenAI’s AI products – a match made in tech heaven?
If you’ve ever posted a comment or post on Reddit, there’s a chance that it will be used as material for training OpenAI’s AI models after the two companies confirmed that they’ve reached a deal that enables this exchange.
Reddit will be given access to OpenAI’s technology to build AI features, and for that (as well as an undisclosed monetary amount), it’s giving OpenAI access to Reddit posts in real-time that can be used by tools like ChatGPT to formulate more human-like responses.
OpenAI will be able to access real-time information from Reddit’s data API, software that enables the retrieval of and interaction with information from Reddit’s platform, providing OpenAI with structured and unique content from Reddit. This is similar to an agreement Reddit reached with Google at the beginning of the year, allowing Google to train its own AI models on Reddit’s data, reported to be worth $60 million.
According to the official Reddit blog post publicizing the deal, the deal will help people discover and engage with Reddit’s communities thanks to the Reddit content brought to ChatGPT and other new OpenAI products. Through Reddit’s APIs, OpenAI’s tools will be able to understand and showcase Reddit’s content better, particularly when it comes to recent topics. Reddit, the company, and Reddit, the community of users
Users and moderators on Reddit will apparently be offered new features thanks to applications powered by OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs). OpenAI will also start advertising on Reddit as an ad partner.
