On Thursday the giant artificial intelligence company OpenAI closed a partnership agreement with social media platform Reddit. The primary objective of the partnership was to enable the OpenAI team to train its AI models on Reddit.
Having gained dominance in the social media sector Reddit was profiled as an important element faciliating conversation on the internet.
OpenAI Partners with Reddit
The two companies plan to expand the OpenAI product offering including the large language model (LLM). This collaborative approach will boost the OpenAI user experience. According to the announcement the partnership between the two companies will be for mutual benefit.
It implies that through the collaboration the Reddit users will be able to access AI-generated content. On the other hand, the OpenAI team will be able to comprehend and demonstrate Reddit’s work to its diverse users.
The announcement demonstrated that the two tech companies have been holding talks concerning the partnership agreement. The partnership deal was first presented by the chief operating officer of OpenAI Brad Lightcap.
After presenting his proposal the OpenAI board of directors assessed the viability of the idea before issuing their final nod. A statement from the chief executive of Reddit Steve Huffman revealed that the social media platform has become one of the open archives on the internet.
OpenAI Seeks to Boost Reddit User Experience
The executive stated that most of the content on Reddit is authentic, relevant, and up-to-date with the current trends and human dialogues. The CEO projects that integrating the OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT on Reddit will enable the social media platform to offer a connected internet.
He believes that the partnership will yield positive outcomes and enable new users to join the Reddit community. To attain the desired results the OpenAI team intends to leverage its ChatGPT to access Reddit content through the Reddit Data API.
The two agreed to make OpenAI a Reddit advertisement partner. The partnership agreement allows Reddit to use OpenAI proprietary tools to develop AI products. OpenAI and Reddit partnership sparked mixed reactions among tech enthusiasts.
On X the chief executive of Trustswap Jeff Kirdeikis described Reddit as a bunch of basement-dwelling unemployed socialists. The executive regretted that even before the partnership deal the Reddit team had been biased.
In support of Kirkdeikis a famous entrepreneur Che Rodney labeled the partnership as misinformation and bias galore. The official lamented that the partnership was a disaster in waiting.
On the contrary other X users express their excitement about the partnership between OpenAI and Reddit. A statement from a renowned tech educator Paul Couvert revealed that the search will have a Reddit filter
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Elsewhere OpenAI COO was pleased to announce the partnership with Reddit. Lightcap believes that the partnership with Reddit will improve the efficiency of ChatGPT by feeding it with timely and relevant information.
The executive anticipates boosting the Reddit user experience through AI-generated tools. The partnership with Reddit demonstrated OpenAI’s commitment to redefining the AI sector.
Recently OpenAI launched an updated version of ChatGPT including the new model dubbed GPT-40 for creating audio, videos, and text.
The OpenAI team also upgraded the user interface to boost user experience. OpenAI joins the list of companies seeking to use the Reddit content. A few months ago the Reddit team sealed a partnership agreement with the giant tech firm Google.
The two companies allowed Google to access the Reddit library and use the data to train its AI content The Google and Reddit partnership attracted the attention of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
At that time the financial regulators expressed concerns over Reddit data licensing and the practicality of using its content to train AI. Reddit claimed that the FTC officials were investigating to examine the sale, licensing, and data-sharing practices with third parties.
The commission will assess whether Reddit content was adequate to train AI models. Reddit claimed that the partnership with Google conforms with the existing regulations.
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