OpenAI and Reddit introduced a partnership on Thursday that can permit OpenAI to floor Reddit discussions in ChatGPT and for Reddit to deliver AI-powered options to its customers. The partnership will “allow OpenAI’s instruments to higher perceive and showcase Reddit content material, particularly on latest subjects,” each firms mentioned in a . As a part of the settlement, OpenAI may even develop into an promoting accomplice on Reddit, which suggests that it’s going to run adverts on the platform.
The deal is much like the one which Reddit in February, and which is price $60 million. A Reddit spokesperson declined to reveal the phrases of the OpenAI deal to Engadget and OpenAI didn’t reply to a request for remark.
OpenAI has been more and more putting partnerships with publishers to get information to proceed coaching its AI fashions. In the previous few weeks alone, the corporate has with the Monetary Occasions and Dotdash Meredith. Final 12 months, it additionally with German writer Axel Springer to coach its fashions on information from Politico and Enterprise Insider within the US and Bild and Die Welt in Germany.
Beneath the brand new association, OpenAI will get entry to Reddit’s Knowledge API, which, the corporate mentioned, will present it with “actual time, structured, and distinctive content material from Reddit.” It’s not clear what AI-powered options Reddit will construct into its platform on account of the partnership. A Reddit spokesperson declined to remark.
Final 12 months, having access to Reddit’s information, a wealthy supply of actual time, human generated, and sometimes high-quality data, grew to become a contentious situation after the corporate introduced that it could begin charging builders to make use of its API. Because of this, dozens of third-party Reddit shoppers have been compelled to and hundreds of subreddits went darkish in protest. On the time, Reddit stood its floor and that giant AI firms have been scraping its information with no fee. Since then, Reddit has been monetizing its information by putting such offers with Google and OpenAI, whose progress in coaching their AI fashions depends upon accessing it.