Perhaps, but not worth buying if you can't make profit or keep it from your competition.
60M is for over almost 20 years of data, but once it's ingested, google will only want new content. Next year, it'll be more like 3M if the dataset isn't poisoned by bots or the AI fad hasn't collapsed. Reddit will struggle with finances again and users will suffer. At least that's my prediction.
Spez has already grifted his money out of the initial stock pump so it literally doesn't matter. Reddit could shut down tomorrow and he'd be happy as a clam.
I wonder if Google's unlimited legal budget plays a role. Not a lawyer, so probably way off here...
But, for example, reddit's success in part depends on Google ingesting their data --- reddit shows up in Google searches all the time, which can only happen if Google uses reddit's content. So reddit telling Google "you can't use our content" doesn't work, and they need to say something like, "you can use our content for search results but you can't consume it as training data."
This is a pretty straightforward statement/request/demand, but one could imagine Google lawyers maliciously complying and throwing their hands up dramatically, claiming "well we use some amount of AI in our search results, so if we can't use your content for AI training then we can't risk using it for search results." Which would, I imagine, really, really hurt reddit (no Google results would be catastrophic I suspect).
So, perhaps the "low" 60M figure is just Google using their leverage.
Or not. As a random person on the Internet, I can say I'm probably not contributing anything meaningful here...
I'm personally curious whether Reddit actually has any ability to protect that database. I don't remember Reddit TOS, but usually those things give them license to use and copy the data, maybe even to sell it, but not actually the copyright on it. So if someone made a Reddit scraper and copied the comments, wouldn't only the actual commenter be able to sue?
$60M may be reflecting that, in that it's more a convenience fee to shield Google against individual Redditors going after them than something that Reddit itself could actually sue over.
Considering it's all full of Nazis and bots, and if you get to filter all of them out you're left with reposts and low quality memes followed by comments that represent the hostile side of each of us.... I'd say anything over $5 is a good deal for spez.
Now, I hope Google uses this data exclusively for detecting inappropriate answers. Can you imagine it giving answers based on the endless threads i of " I'm not your mate, bro; I'm not your bro, dude.....".
One thing that doesn't seem to get brought up is the AI porn angle. Gonewild is pretty big on reddit still. A lot of OnlyFans creators, and general perverts (respect). Reddit wants to commodify this content, so those people are selling the images of their bodies so AI can make porn of random strangers. Kinda fucked when you think about it.
I deleted my comment history after the API exodus. I'm sure they could dig it up if they wanted but at least they'll have to click like 3 more buttons if they want to train AI on my nonsense.
Can someone point me the way of that bot or whatever that changes all your old Reddit posts before deleting them? I thought I had it saved somewhere but I can't find it now and have no idea what it's called.
I had read that with some people, is was a delay from their server instance between read/write and in the end the changes did end up sticking, but I don't know if that was true. A lot of people were mass editing at the same time, and since editing isn't something that happens super frequently, it might have less priority in the stack and caused backups.
is there a way to mass delete my old content? the service i used in the past doesn't seem to have worked. i recently got a reply from a 6 year-old post from someone saying they got there on google.
My understanding is that the mass delete you did probably had worked, but reddit rolled back your deletions. I heard it happened to a lot of mass deleters after the lemmy exodus.
Is worse nothing gotten really deleted admins admitted in like 2018 that they can see deleted posts. I think even some mods can. The access they give to Google is to the backend they can see EVERYTHING.
I think I'm gonna be sick. so all the stuff I wrote, it's just THERE? what the fuck do i do? what about private info that I dont want on a public fucking search engine?? I've had that account since I was a kid, there's a lot of shit I regret posting, what the FUCK!
But Z just is biding its time till it can be Y. The most principled owners in existence have a finite life span. It is only a matter of time till the vultures put their claws into anything.
Gabe is gonna die, steam is gonna be fucked. We should have all started with Good Old Games. But we didn't. But it's not to late to switch. To be free with your software. Don't be like me, wishing you had been smarter before.
In the case of steam and gog, steam was around a lot longer before gog. I only purchase what I must on steam, and if it's available on both I always purchase from gog. They more align with my values. But valve from my point of view is such a prosumer business I don't mind. But you're right. When Gabe goes, I'm willing to bet some cock sucker ceo from oracle or ibm will swoop in and fuck the whole thing up.