The self-declared “front page of the internet” Reddit has officially confirmed a$ 60 million agreement with OpenAI, giving the ChatGPT father exposure to its extensive library of extremely left-wing user-generated material for training purposes.
Reddit and OpenAI’s arrangement, which allows Reddit to exchange its articles for entry to AI tools and an advertising partnership, was disclosed by Mashable in a shared blog post on Thursday. The shift has raised worries among Internet users about the private and power of their articles, comments, and images.
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., speaks with members of the internet during the Allen &, Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, US, on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. In contrast to the summit’s usual center for handshakes and mergers, the summit could adopt a little different tone this year in the face of sluggish offer volume, inflation, and higher interest rates. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The blog post states that” Remaining open means that Reddit content must be available to those who foster human learning and are looking for ways to create community, belonging, and empowerment electronically.” The article goes on to explain how significant Internet is as a “uniquely large and vibrant area that has long been a significant forum for online discussion.”
Under the terms of the agreement, OpenAI may use Reddit’s Data API to get actual- time, structured, and exclusive content from the platform. This will help OpenAI’s Artificial tools, including ChatGPT, to better know and promote Reddit content, especially on new topics. The repercussions for Reddit customers are important, as any information posted on the system, past or present, will be used to teach the AI.
The person agreement on Reddit clarifies the right users grant when posting on the system. By creating or submitting content, users grant Reddit a “worldwide, royalty- completely, permanent, irreversible, non- unique, transferable, and sublicensable license” to apply, copy, modify, adapt, prepare variant works of, distribute, store, perform, and display their content across all media formats and channels. This registration allows Reddit to create user articles available for syndication, broadcast, submission, or publication by partnering businesses, companies, or individuals.
The options are limited for users who are concerned about how their information is used for AI training and their privacy. Moving forward in refraining from posting or commenting on Reddit may prevent potential use of information, but the death of recently posted content is still uncertain. Even if customers decide to cancel their information, it may already be too late, as deleted articles can still be archived.
Reddit is renowned for its left-wing discrimination. In one heinous act of repression before the 2020 election, the page banned” The_Donald”, a pro- Trump group of 750, 000 people. According to what Breitbart News reported at the time:
In a statement to Breitbart News, a The_Donald spokesman condemned the move by Reddit:”
Reddit has been using methods to methodically censor The_Donald for years. imposing strict guidelines that only The_Donald is required to follow, preventing our submissions from appearing on the front page, and allowing far-left communities to harass and denigrate our members ( to the point of creating a chrome extension that recognizes anyone who posts on The_Donald )”.
” This is their next step, and is generally Reddit’s step just before outright banning a community. Their justification is hardly sound, given that they claim they spent too much time removing content from the subreddit that goes against site-wide guidelines, but their own logs show less than one removal]per day. This censorship also takes place on the eve of the Democratic Primaries, which seems less than coincidental”, the spokesman continued.
Read more at Mashable here.
For Breitbart News, Lucas Nolan reports on issues involving free speech and online censorship.
