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Reddit partners with Google to provide content for training AI models.

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Reddit partners with Google to provide content for training AI models.

Google's latest announcement states that the company has expanded its partnership with the "American version of PTT forum" Reddit. Reddit will provide its real-time platform content to Google for training AI models, while Reddit will be able to enhance its search capabilities through Vertex AI.

Reddit Provides Content to Google for AI Training

It is reported that in this collaboration, Reddit's data API will provide Google with real-time and extensive content from its platform, allowing Google not only to display Reddit content in its products but also to use it for training and improving AI models:

Google can now efficiently access real-time, unique, and structured data from Reddit's community platform, helping us quickly understand the content on Reddit and display or train it in the most accurate way.

On the other hand, Reddit will be able to utilize Google's Vertex AI product to integrate and develop AI-driven services to enhance search and other functions on its platform.

Reddit: Committed to User Data Protection

Reddit also stated in a press release:

Through Reddit's API, Reddit provides fresh, dynamic, and evolving public posts or comments, enabling Google to display Reddit content in its products and use the absorbed data to improve its products and services, making it easier for people to discover and understand communities and conversations on Reddit.

At the same time, the company also emphasized its stance on user data protection:

The partnership established this time will not change Reddit's data API or developer terms. The regulations stipulate that content accessed through Reddit's data API may not be used for commercial purposes and are subject to restrictions.

Reddit Stock 'RDDT' to Go Public Soon

It is understood that according to a report by Bloomberg last week, Reddit has signed a $60 million deal with an AI company to provide textual and audiovisual content from its community platform for training AI models. It is now apparent that the company in question is likely Google itself.

Reddit has submitted its initial public offering (IPO) application to the SEC

Furthermore, Reddit has announced plans to charge companies using its API, all of which point to its recent filing for an initial public offering (IPO) with the SEC.

It is reported that the stock code 'RDDT' is expected to go public in March, making it one of the few large social media companies to IPO since Pinterest in 2019.

Reddit Files for IPO, Holds BTC, ETH, with Sam Altman as an Investor

AI Training Content May Pose Legal Risks

The public collaboration between these two companies reflects the trend of AI enterprises actively collaborating with text and audiovisual content platforms, partly to expand the comprehensiveness of their training data and information and also to avoid legal risks associated with unauthorized use of third-party content.

Previously, The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing the two companies of copyright infringement for using the newspaper's content without permission to train their AI models, damaging their reputation and operational capabilities. OpenAI responded that it was "fair use."

Crisis in Media and Publishing? The New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft for Massive Copyright Infringement