Slack wants user’s data to train AI – and now OpenAI has access to Reddit’s mass of user-generated posts. From The Verge:

OpenAI has signed a deal for access to real-time content from Reddit’s data API, which means it can surface discussions from the site within ChatGPT and other new products. It’s an agreement similar to the one Reddit signed with Google earlier this year that was reportedly worth $60 million.

Since Reddit content has already been used to train all of the existing ‘foundation’ models, this could be interpreted as a thief coming back to make some restitution.

Read the report here.