San Francisco — Reddit has reached an agreement with Google which allows the search giant to use the online discussion site's entries to train your models artificial intelligence and improve products like online search.
The agreement, announced Thursday and valued at about $60 million It will also give Reddit access to Google's AI models to improve its site's search and other functions.
This is a big step for San Francisco-based Reddit, which relies on volunteer moderators to manage their wide range of topical debates. Those moderators have publicly protested past decisions by the company, most recently blocking much of the site for days when Reddit announced plans to start charging many third-party apps for access to their content.
But it is also very important for Google, who wants to access human-written material to train their AI models and improve their “understanding” of the world and, therefore, their ability to provide relevant answers to questions in a conversational format.
Google praised Reddit in a press release, calling it a repository of “an incredible breadth of authentic, human conversations and experiences,” and stressed that the search giant's main goal is to “make it even easier for people to benefit from that.” useful information”.
Google downplayed its interest in using Reddit data to train its AI systems, instead emphasizing that will make it “even easier” for users to access Reddit information, such as product recommendations and travel tips, by funneling it through Google products.
He described this process as “a more content-oriented visualization of Reddit information” that should benefit both Google tools and make it easier for users to participate on Reddit.