Meanwhile, Reddit says it will bring “AI-powered features” to redditors.
AI startup OpenAI has a new data source: social media platform Reddit.
In a partnership announced Thursday, Reddit said it’s opening its doors to OpenAI so tools like ChatGPT and unspecified “new products” can better understand Reddit content, as well as to as help new and existing redditors engage with its 100,000-plus communities, or subreddits, the platform wrote in a blog post.
It’s good news for ChatGPT users who want more timely content and an awareness of current events. Right now, the company’s ChatGPT 4 offering (which costs $20 a month) knows things only up to August 2023, while the free ChatGPT 3.5 goes up to only September 2021.
And it’s good for those of us who want to understand the sources that chatbots draw from. To date, what exactly chatbots have been trained on — that is, how they learn about words and how we use them — has been a bit contentious and not always clear.
OpenAI says its large language models have been trained on information that’s publicly available on the internet, as well as information it licenses from third parties and information from its users and trainers.
