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Reddit's licensing deal means Google's AI can soon be trained on the best humanity has to offer — completely unhinged posts
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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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Crazy that they pay 60 million a year instead of creating their own Reddit clone.
The AI team knows Google would just kill off the Reddit clone within 18 months if they went that route.
I also think it would be many years if at all that Google could get a site going that is popular enough people filter their search results by it like I do with Reddit.
Given Google and OpenAI pay some of the AI engineers almost 10M, I don't think they care
https://nypost.com/2023/11/13/business/openai-reportedly-trying-to-poach-google-ai-talent-with-10m-pay-packages-as-race-heats-up/
Or creating a public Usenet server.