One of Spez’s answers in the infamous Reddit AMA struck me

Two things happened at the same time: the LLM explosion put all Reddit data use at the forefront, and our continuing efforts to reign in costs…

I am beginning to think all they wanted to do was getting their share of the AI pie, since we know Reddit’s data is one of the major datasets for training conversetional models. But they are such a bunch of bumbling fools, as well as being chronically understaffed, the whole thing exploded in their face. At this stage their only chance if survival may well be to be bought out by OpenAI…

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    1 year ago

    Getty is already suing the Dall-E creators, and someone is suing MS for Copilot; so it’s already started

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        1 year ago

        Sure but I’m bot sure why you are bringing this up. What’s the wider point you are trying to make?

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      I’m still perplexed that some people are siding with evil ass Getty in that case. At least the copilot case has some merit but I don’t see how Microsoft could lose as that would set precedent for whole AI in the US and no way US is letting that disadvantage to happen. It’s meme-level lawsuits.

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        1 year ago

        Just speculation, but I think it’s because people think Getty can hire top class laywers and therefore has a better chance of winning compared to, say, the group of artists who were also taking Dall-E to court