Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO
Shouted@programming.dev 9 months agoSeriously. Reddit is a glorified link sharing service with comments looking for a 6+ billion valuation. Christian and a couple backend devs could recreate it all in a weekend.
Reddit is hopeful that AI training is their golden ticket but in all reality they’ll only ever have one large buyer. OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, etc, don’t want something that Gemini already bought.
With all that out of the way, I don’t see very many companies lining up to license a dataset consisting purely consisting of left-leaning extremists with all non-echo chamber discussion being banned. I mean, look at how much trouble Google got in with an objectively racist Gemini that forced them to turn off human image generation.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Depends on the sub. The news, technology, and politics subs are 99% link sharing. The subs around DIY stuff, health, etc are often people sharing personal experience and advice. The latter is likely the most valuable thing for AI to crawl.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Maybe this isn’t what you are saying, but Reddit (at least in the past, on smaller more expert subreddits) is no more an echo chamber than any other politically charged community space online, it’s just in other communities the rightwing people who control the levers of power usually don’t let leftists have any kind of voice or power in the first place.