Reddit Follows Twitter’s Lead, Announces Paid Access To Data API
Reddit announced paid Data API access in an effort to stop AI companies from freely using its content to train large language models.
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Reddit announced this week updated terms for developer tools and services, paid access to the Reddit Data API, and more native moderation tools.
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While the Reddit blog explained the changes as part of creating a healthy ecosystem, the New York Times reported that paid API access would stop large companies from using Reddit content to train large language models (LLMs) for free.
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Updated documentation confirms that developers can only use Reddit content for LLM training with prior approval from Reddit and that it constitutes commercial access.
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Bard cannot confirm if Google included Reddit content in its training data as part of the publicly available datasets “likely used.”
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ChatGPT cannot share a specific list of sources, but Reddit may be one of them.
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Bing AI confirms that Microsoft uses multiple data sources, including the Bing index and algorithm with OpenAI GPT models.