Tag: reddit

Reddit is betting on AI search to navigate vast trove of data

Reddit is about to place AI search right on all of its content pages.
Reddit is going all in on AI search for its huge content of 20 billion posts and comments. (Picture: Reddit)
If there’s anything Reddit is famous for outside of daily memes, easy news and activism — it is the very fact it is all pedal-driven. As in it is full of human connections, giving tonnes of answers to questions ranging from the trivial to the weird.

The company grew its revenue by 78% year-over-year this quarter, and now has a plan to drive even more traffic to its services; AI.

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Reddit sues Anthropic for unauthorized data harvesting

Reddit inc. is suing Anthropic for illegally scraping its data.
Reddit has clear terms in its user agreement against AI scraping, and has made lucrative deals for it’s data.
The company, home to a valuable archive of 20 years of human exchanges, says Anthropic illegally copied from its archives at least 100 000 times.

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday at the San Francisco superior court, claims Reddit reached out to Anthropic several times to discuss licensing issues with the scraping but found they «refused to engage.»

Not a white knight
The suit calls Anthropic a «late-blooming artificial intelligence company that bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry,» adding that «it is anything but.»

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Kripos’ Nettpatrulje advarer Reddit om nakenbilder

Kripos har intatt Reddit - med en advarsel
Polities Nettpatrulje inntok Reddit for to måneder siden, og nå har de lagt ut en klar advarsel om nakenbilder. (Bilde: skjermdump, Kripos)

Kripos’ nasjonale cyberkrimsenterenhet, eller Nettpatruljen, har postet en advarselsplakat på Reddit etter flere tilfeller av nakendeling på nettstedet.

Politiets advarsel kommer etter gjentatte klager om deling av nakenbilder, som blant annet ble fremhevet av NRK, som avslørte flere tråder og forumer på Reddit der det blir delt private bilder av unge, norske jenter.

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