OpenAI strikes deal to put Reddit posts in ChatGPT

OpenAI and Reddit introduced a partnership on Thursday that can enable OpenAI to floor Reddit discussions in ChatGPT and for Reddit to carry 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 corporations stated in a . As a part of the settlement, OpenAI can even change into an promoting companion on Reddit, which suggests that it’ll run advertisements on the platform.

The deal is just 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 placing partnerships with publishers to get information to proceed coaching its AI fashions. In the previous few weeks alone, the corporate has with the Monetary Instances and Dotdash Meredith. Final yr, 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.

Underneath the brand new association, OpenAI will get entry to Reddit’s Knowledge API, which, the corporate stated, 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 yr, having access to Reddit’s information, a wealthy supply of actual time, human generated, and infrequently high-quality data, grew to become a contentious subject after the corporate introduced that it might begin charging builders to make use of its API. Consequently, dozens of third-party Reddit shoppers had been compelled to and 1000’s of subreddits went darkish in protest. On the time, Reddit stood its floor and that giant AI corporations had been scraping its information with no fee. Since then, Reddit has been monetizing its information by placing such offers with Google and OpenAI, whose progress in coaching their AI fashions is dependent upon gaining access to it.