How to give a privacy advocate a coronary? Have OpenAI and Reddit reach an agreement.
Keeping the internet open is crucial, and part of being open means Reddit content needs to be accessible to those fostering human learning and researching ways to build community, belonging, and empowerment online. Reddit is a uniquely large and vibrant community that has long been an important space for conversation on the internet. Additionally, using LLMs, ML, and AI allow Reddit to improve the user experience for everyone.
In line with this, Reddit and OpenAI today announced a partnership to benefit both the Reddit and OpenAI user communities…
Perhaps some members of the Reddit user community may not feel the benefits when OpenAI is training on their data.
- Kinda like how people who chose DuckDuckGo to not be tracked subsequently discovered that DuckDuckGo allowed Microsoft-owned tracking scripts on third-party websites until the practice was stopped in August 2022.
- And there’s the whole issue about where Clearview AI gets its data.
While people who joined Reddit presumably understood that anyone could view their data, they never imagined that a third party would then process its data for its own purposes.
Oh, but wait a minute. Reddit clarifies things:
This partnership…does not change Reddit’s Data API Terms or Developer Terms, which state content accessed through Reddit’s Data API cannot be used for commercial purposes without Reddit’s approval. API access remains free for non-commercial usage under our published threshold.
And, of course, OpenAI’s “primary fiduciary duty is to humanity,” so of course it is NOT using the Reddit data for commercial purposes.
And EVERY ONE of the people who accesses Reddit data through OpenAI’s offerings would NEVER use the data for commercial…
…um…
…we’ll get back to you on that.
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