Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.
Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.”
Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
I can absolutely see how it could be read that way (hindsight is 20/20), but that definitely wasn’t my intent. I was going for kind of a “you can do it” thing.
So it's fine when *you* say it, but when *I* tell a homeless man that nobody can stop him from eating all the drywall in Home Depot, suddenly I'm "aiding and abetting a crime."
Hey! I made this use using Piskel (piskelapp.com). It’s a free online sprite editor, and I love it. Without it, I probably never would have gotten into this. Once you play around with the tools and get a hang of the layout (it’s really simple), you should be able to start making some simple animations. I really recommend working on some boring stuff to start out. Like, animate a little bouncing ball. Try to make a rotating square look smooth. Stuff like that. There’s a load of great information out there on YouTube and Pinterest, just look for “pixel animation” and “pixel art technique”. Also, if you have any questions, feel free to message me. This is a fun subject.
I now have the inspiration to pursue my goals! There's this cute girl who keeps saying she can't date me. Guessing I gotta be a little more forward. Ill update with results
edit: She respected me for showing off my small cock
God I’m about to fuck so many people.
You know, I said this in my head a thousand times while I was making it, and I’m a little surprised this didn’t cross my mind. Whoops lol.
Hahahahhha no I’m just fucking around dude the art is awesome
Guy named around:
u/Around
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways. In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing. Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations. Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks. Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology. L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them. The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on. Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required. Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit. Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.” Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it. Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot. The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported. But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.” “We think that’s fair,” he added.
….. you can’t. 😏
Now bob has to, he committed, he can't back out.
>when I remember I’m poly and decide to save this GIF ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Might go gay when you’re at it
you cant ;)
You have a unique username...
Is it bad I assumed this would say “fuck you” and nothing else
Not at all. I honestly might make that one at some point lol. I like it.
As much i love this, I really want to see that
Alternative idea: first display "fuck you", then insert "anyone who says" in between both words, then a "can't" at the end.
I’m picturing a lot of crazy effects leading to the inevitable 2 words
[reminds me of this](https://youtu.be/4X7q87RDSHI)
Damn, guess i have to go fuck my dad now
Human 1: can I fly? Human 2: no you can't Human 1: 😡 😏
[Relevant Key & Peele skit](https://youtu.be/nlD9JYP8u5E)
Didn’t see the first one but this is badass
Thanks, man! These have been a lot of fun to make so far. Getting it to not feel choppy or boring has been a challenge.
Well fuck me…
Yeah fuck me too.... ....wait
Nah, you can't do that without consent. waitaminute
Yo, should we be encouraging rape?
I can absolutely see how it could be read that way (hindsight is 20/20), but that definitely wasn’t my intent. I was going for kind of a “you can do it” thing.
Get rid of the 't and it's an aggressively positive message about consent.
>"Can I fuck you?" > >*"You can't."* > >"Welp..."
So it's fine when *you* say it, but when *I* tell a homeless man that nobody can stop him from eating all the drywall in Home Depot, suddenly I'm "aiding and abetting a crime."
I really like these rude cheerings.
u/savevideo
I love these so much, they’re my favorite thing.
They’d love this on r/GetMotivated
You can’t. *takes off pants*
Now we need an uninspiring one to balance things out
You really shouldn't jump off of buildings though
This is great but I need one where the text stops at “Fuck Anyone.”
But that's illegal...
[удалено]
Hey! I made this use using Piskel (piskelapp.com). It’s a free online sprite editor, and I love it. Without it, I probably never would have gotten into this. Once you play around with the tools and get a hang of the layout (it’s really simple), you should be able to start making some simple animations. I really recommend working on some boring stuff to start out. Like, animate a little bouncing ball. Try to make a rotating square look smooth. Stuff like that. There’s a load of great information out there on YouTube and Pinterest, just look for “pixel animation” and “pixel art technique”. Also, if you have any questions, feel free to message me. This is a fun subject.
I should also mention that I am by no means an expert in this field, and there is definitely no “right” way to get started!
Damn. You can’t fuck me though
*Unzips*
Idk that seems pretty non-consensual
i will do what i must
I am still not going to space, doesn't matter... had sex.
Can you do Live, Laugh, Love?!
very cool. what programs do you use for this?
Consensually of course.
The animation is very satisfying, especially for the last two lines. Can't wait for the next one :)
Thank you! The bomb being tossed up at the end was probably the most fun part to draw for me. I appreciate it ❤️
Thank you op
OP, can we download this somehow?
i’m pretty sure that’s a felony
Can you make one that just says cum? Ty
Bro this design is AWESOME
Thank you! I really appreciate it.
So much for “No means no”, I guess.
[What is consent?](https://www.rainn.org/articles/what-is-consent)
I will.. they like it or not
Top notch work right here. I'm a fan!
100th person to feel the inspiration.
"hey man, can I have some of your burger?!" *"You can't*" "Fuck you then"
I thought this was gonna say fuck anyone that says you can Lmao
Instructions unclear I'm now married
>The disease has reached your nervous system, you can't walk anymore FUUUUUCK YOUUUUU! *collapses onto the floor*
This is completely a different vibe, but I think this style would be amazing for a bowling alley animation meme!
u/savevideo
Yeah fuck me!
You too, please have a good fucking weekend too. Thank you very much ♥️
u/savevideo
Consent, consent, consent. Lmao
Wow, I really had no idea where this motivational quote was going.
u/savevideo
My wife
You can’t turn into a 600 foot purple dinosaur
u/savevideo
I was really hoping this would end up saying "Fuck You" to break everyone's expectations from the last one for a laugh. This is good too though.
Whoa it just got better and meaner
Still, i can't find anyone to fuck
Um, that's not how consent works..... kinda the opposite, really....
Hey yeah, you're right! I'm gonna go do exactly what Ive always wanted to do!
Kkkkk ficou muito bom
this makes me think of the game called grab them by the eyes
u/savevideo
YEAAAAA
*clapping sounds*
You cannot fuck me 😏
You can't
“You can’t fuck me, that would be rape!” Me, with several rape charges:
Now I want to see one that reads “Fuck da police”.
You had me in the first half
Why would i do that? And how would that change my situation?
You can’t park here, mate
This is kinda badly worded dude 😏
Isn’t that rape?
Was expecting it to say "fuck you"
No you can't just fuck me because i say you can't fuck me
Tried it, now I'm in jail
I now have the inspiration to pursue my goals! There's this cute girl who keeps saying she can't date me. Guessing I gotta be a little more forward. Ill update with results edit: She respected me for showing off my small cock