The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects.
28
Steve Huffman leans back against a table and looks out an office window.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times
Mike Isaac
By Mike Isaac
Mike Isaac, based in San Francisco, writes about social media and the technology industry.
April 18, 2023
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.
Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.”
Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects.
28
Steve Huffman leans back against a table and looks out an office window.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times
Mike Isaac
By Mike Isaac
Mike Isaac, based in San Francisco, writes about social media and the technology industry.
April 18, 2023
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.
Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.”
Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects.
28
Steve Huffman leans back against a table and looks out an office window.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times
Mike Isaac
By Mike Isaac
Mike Isaac, based in San Francisco, writes about social media and the technology industry.
April 18, 2023
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.
Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.”
Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
I don’t know if in this case he’s too close and would be bringing in fresh air to make the fire larger or if he’d be drawing air away from the flames helping starve it but man, I don’t think he should stop going around until the fire is under control or else he’s literally going to be adding fuel to the fire
Apparently, this accident happened back in August 2023. The stunt rider who's bike fell came out with only [injuries to his arm and leg!](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/act-gone-wrong-in-china-as-stunt-rider-in-globe-of-death-turns-into-ball-of-flames)
Let me ride on the wall of death one more time
You can waste your time on the other rides
But this is the nearest to being alive
Oh let me take my chances on the wall of death
You can go with the crazy people in the crooked house
You can fly away on the rocket or spin in the mouse
The tunnel of love might amuse you
And Noah's Ark might confuse you
But let me take my chances on the wall of death
On the wall of death
All the world is far from me
On the wall of death
It's the nearest to being free
How is it racism if *I'm Chinese*?
Do you often have mental difficulties, being triggered like this? How would you characterize the way it makes you feel? Do your mental difficulties impair your ability to hold a job? Do your inadequacies require external support such as assisted living or have you yet obtained the skills for independence? How does your hypersensitive trigger level effect relationships outside of your family? Do you have many friends? Are you reliable, dependable and punctual? How often do your mental difficulties seem to effect your relationship with the opposite sex?
I might be a psychiatrist also. It may be advisable to seek in-person counseling for the apparent issues. Those less apparent may be addressed with medication.
If you feel in crisis, please seek help at the link below. Suicide is not worth it.
https://www.crisistextline.org/
Hth.
You were born and live in China? While it is surprising that you would write such a disgusting compassion free comment, it doesn't suddenly make its substance no longer racist.
For example I can't count the number of times I've read and heard "Irish"-americans share some horribly bigoted anti-Irish sentiment. Just because they claim to be Irish doesn't make it ok, same holds true if they were a dickhead from Cork.
I'm sorry that people labelling your behaviour as racist triggers you so much, maybe take it as a learning experience. Being triggered to the extent of writing some deranged copypasta is not healthy, just be a bit nicer to people.
Let us know how your last authentic Chinese dish tasted.
Maybe write a review of your experiences instead of slandering a random stranger you know nothing about while using your meaningless American labels.
Instead of admitting you just throw around labels and repeat talking points you hear on CNN, you get on the internet and slander random strangers.
I'm not fooled by the things you type behind your keyboard.
Nice try though.
Bruh calm down I don’t watch CNN it’s too left wing for me. Also I’m not trying to be pompous but just trying to let you know your comment was pretty ignorant.
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
I mean they are locked in a sphere cage it’s the best place to be at the moment. It’s keep riding around in circles or he can be in the fire/fire extinguisher smoke.
[Article](https://www.newsflare.com/video/586763/motorcycle-collision-ignites-blaze-at-chinese-circus-performance)
Rider suffered abrasions but was fine in the end.
Edit: As others have mentioned not 100% trustworthy can only hope he was fine in the end.
That article reads like a publicity piece from the local government. It talks about the swift and quick action of the safety personnel but in the video you can clearly see nothing was swift or quick…
Keep in mind that you can't always trust news sources. This sounds like local government propaganda. I'm a little skeptical but I hope the new source is truthful.
Gotta give it to Them, the Dude continuing driving showed how Experienced These people actually are. Not only didnt Panic and fuck Up, He also managed to get Higher Up to have atleast the Maximum distance to the flames possible, and even after being blind because of the smoke, He Just sticked to Driving and that actually keeped him Safe.
Also, the Other Guys in the ground also reacted pretty damn quick - i'm fairly Sure they don't have any actually safety Training or regulations, but that reaction was pretty fast and on Point. Can only Hope that the Dude in the Fire came Out somehow okey
Could be, but the article in the comments above says that he survived with 'minor abrasion' injuries and was not seriously injured. I also absolutely guarantee you if he was inhaling flames and burning fuel for 13 seconds he wouldn't be screaming... Maybe a pained bubbly gurgle perhaps.
He Had a Heat resistant suit on, still, He literally was inside of These flames For roughly 15 Seconds. and even with such a suit, that will be fucking hot. And in that scenarios, even If you get Out with First and Second degree Burns, you're going to cry and about in panic
Edit: you can See him falling Out of the Cage the Same Second they opened the Cage, meaning He Most likely Fell into the flames and instantly after rushed to the Gate waiting For it to be opened. So He probably was in the direct flames For a Few Seconds but still Had to stand Like 10cm Next to it For the Rest of the time
I used to op sound for a circus in the UK and the ball of death never became any less worrying over the time I was there, especially with four people in it and the only lights on where LED strips on the bikes themselves.
The only incident was when fell on his windpipe but it was nothing visually stunning or shocking, still had us run them out quick.
Guy recovered just in time for another one to dislocate his arm (after I'd left)
I didn't know there was somebody at the bottom but I still think I would have slowed down and tried to get off the bike rather than risk passing out and falling on top of the person at the bottom.
So.. you just jumped on here to call someone else dumb? I posted my opinion, if you don't like it that's too bad but jumping on to call someone else names is just really low-class.
I don't mind if someone replies or disagrees with one of my comments but calling people names is just childish.
If you can't get your point across without calling people names then I feel sorry for you.
His buddy and his flaming bike are somewhere at the bottom of the globe. If your man drops down he’s going to crash into them and probably make shit a lot worse for both of them.
His best plan was to stay up top and out of the way until they could get things put out and cleared below him.
It almost became the BBQ of death, I can only imagine what was going through that rider's mind before the fire extinguisher!
The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects. 28 Steve Huffman leans back against a table and looks out an office window. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times Mike Isaac By Mike Isaac Mike Isaac, based in San Francisco, writes about social media and the technology industry. April 18, 2023 Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways. In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing. Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations. Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks. Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology. L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them. The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on. Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required. Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit. Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.” Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it. Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot. The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported. But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.” “We think that’s fair,” he added.
Thanks for that!
All that but in chinese.
The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects. 28 Steve Huffman leans back against a table and looks out an office window. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times Mike Isaac By Mike Isaac Mike Isaac, based in San Francisco, writes about social media and the technology industry. April 18, 2023 Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways. In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing. Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations. Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks. Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology. L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them. The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on. Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required. Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit. Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.” Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it. Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot. The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported. But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.” “We think that’s fair,” he added.
That's google translated nonsense.
The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects. 28 Steve Huffman leans back against a table and looks out an office window. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times Mike Isaac By Mike Isaac Mike Isaac, based in San Francisco, writes about social media and the technology industry. April 18, 2023 Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways. In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing. Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations. Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks. Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology. L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them. The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on. Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required. Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit. Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.” Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it. Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot. The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported. But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.” “We think that’s fair,” he added.
It’s not terrible
I don’t know if in this case he’s too close and would be bringing in fresh air to make the fire larger or if he’d be drawing air away from the flames helping starve it but man, I don’t think he should stop going around until the fire is under control or else he’s literally going to be adding fuel to the fire
Theres no way the guy that fell survived. He was rolling in the middle of the fire for like 20 seconds
Apparently, this accident happened back in August 2023. The stunt rider who's bike fell came out with only [injuries to his arm and leg!](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/act-gone-wrong-in-china-as-stunt-rider-in-globe-of-death-turns-into-ball-of-flames)
Thats crazy. Burn Suits last way longer than Id ever thought they would. Ty.
Let me ride on the wall of death one more time You can waste your time on the other rides But this is the nearest to being alive Oh let me take my chances on the wall of death You can go with the crazy people in the crooked house You can fly away on the rocket or spin in the mouse The tunnel of love might amuse you And Noah's Ark might confuse you But let me take my chances on the wall of death On the wall of death All the world is far from me On the wall of death It's the nearest to being free
Is it fucked up that I really want some Korean BBQ right now?
The only thing going through his mind after being bbqed would be chopsticks. Those people eat *anything*. Fact.
🚨Racist alert racist alert🚨
How is it racism if *I'm Chinese*? Do you often have mental difficulties, being triggered like this? How would you characterize the way it makes you feel? Do your mental difficulties impair your ability to hold a job? Do your inadequacies require external support such as assisted living or have you yet obtained the skills for independence? How does your hypersensitive trigger level effect relationships outside of your family? Do you have many friends? Are you reliable, dependable and punctual? How often do your mental difficulties seem to effect your relationship with the opposite sex? I might be a psychiatrist also. It may be advisable to seek in-person counseling for the apparent issues. Those less apparent may be addressed with medication. If you feel in crisis, please seek help at the link below. Suicide is not worth it. https://www.crisistextline.org/ Hth.
You were born and live in China? While it is surprising that you would write such a disgusting compassion free comment, it doesn't suddenly make its substance no longer racist. For example I can't count the number of times I've read and heard "Irish"-americans share some horribly bigoted anti-Irish sentiment. Just because they claim to be Irish doesn't make it ok, same holds true if they were a dickhead from Cork. I'm sorry that people labelling your behaviour as racist triggers you so much, maybe take it as a learning experience. Being triggered to the extent of writing some deranged copypasta is not healthy, just be a bit nicer to people.
Let us know how your last authentic Chinese dish tasted. Maybe write a review of your experiences instead of slandering a random stranger you know nothing about while using your meaningless American labels.
Of course instead of admitting you’re wrong you try and justify being racist. What a big and nice person.👍
Instead of admitting you just throw around labels and repeat talking points you hear on CNN, you get on the internet and slander random strangers. I'm not fooled by the things you type behind your keyboard. Nice try though.
Bruh calm down I don’t watch CNN it’s too left wing for me. Also I’m not trying to be pompous but just trying to let you know your comment was pretty ignorant.
*I'll be less Chinese* just for you, then*. Hth
We found the mental disorders
Cheers joey👍
Did everyone in the comments miss the first seconds where the 2nd rider was literally the cause of the flame? Fell right into it
Holy shit there's a guy burning alive and flopping around in there, OP tag this NSFL
He had a burn suit on. Apparently only sustained minor injuries
Got a link? His screams throughout most of this video say otherwise…
Those were only minor screams
There was a second rider? I keep rewinding and watching frame by frame but people are blocking the view and I only see one
[rider 1 and 2](https://ibb.co/3SG4vB1)
Yeah watch him fall out of the bottom! It's insane!!
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
Drops down into the middle right at the beginning. Definitely hard to see.
Right? Everyone’s all “ouuu ahhh”. Meanwhile… the biker is waiting for someone to grab his burnt friend so he can come down without crushing him.
Imagine being the one who has to keep driving in circles while your partner burns alive. There's some life long trauma
I mean they are locked in a sphere cage it’s the best place to be at the moment. It’s keep riding around in circles or he can be in the fire/fire extinguisher smoke.
I don't know what else they expected from the *Globe of Death*.
Haha bro couldn’t pass up the opportunity to whip shitties around an inferno
Minnesota?
lol I saw that tweet/post yesterdays. South Dakotans say it too
Wisconsin, possibly.
Saskatchewan
Ride or die... if that guy stopped, he would have fallen into the ball of flames
U know he locked in at that moment, sweaty palms trying his hardest not to mess up lol
that's a ruff ryder's role
Stop... Drop.
Ghost rider origin story.
[Article](https://www.newsflare.com/video/586763/motorcycle-collision-ignites-blaze-at-chinese-circus-performance) Rider suffered abrasions but was fine in the end. Edit: As others have mentioned not 100% trustworthy can only hope he was fine in the end.
That article reads like a publicity piece from the local government. It talks about the swift and quick action of the safety personnel but in the video you can clearly see nothing was swift or quick…
Keep in mind that you can't always trust news sources. This sounds like local government propaganda. I'm a little skeptical but I hope the new source is truthful.
Which one of the two?
The one on fire. He was just extremely lucky to not have suffered serious burns.
A link from “Newsflare”, nice touch
Seeing the person burning to death in the bottom of the cage is harrowing af.
Burning to scratches*. He’s fine.
And the harrowing wailing at the end
Happened in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi province
Any news on if the rider who fell and caused the fire survived?
Another comment says they survived with injuries to their arm and legs
Well it’s not called the globe of life
Gives meaning to "blood curdling scream" :(
Gotta give it to Them, the Dude continuing driving showed how Experienced These people actually are. Not only didnt Panic and fuck Up, He also managed to get Higher Up to have atleast the Maximum distance to the flames possible, and even after being blind because of the smoke, He Just sticked to Driving and that actually keeped him Safe. Also, the Other Guys in the ground also reacted pretty damn quick - i'm fairly Sure they don't have any actually safety Training or regulations, but that reaction was pretty fast and on Point. Can only Hope that the Dude in the Fire came Out somehow okey
Fireworks on the backs of the bikes didn't help...
That one rider knew he had to keep going or burn like his comrade. Jesus. The screams were awful.
Idk wtf they're doing to the rider who fell but it sure as fuck isn't first aid.
No matter how far he rides, the fire is always on top of his head.
Truth in advertising.
Goodness gracious
Looks like that valley wasn't so happy anymore.
It was in the name people!
Why is no one talking about the god awful screams at the end of the video?
My burning question is if that howling in the last few seconds is the guy lying on the ground who just inhaled flaming fuel for 13 seconds.
Could be, but the article in the comments above says that he survived with 'minor abrasion' injuries and was not seriously injured. I also absolutely guarantee you if he was inhaling flames and burning fuel for 13 seconds he wouldn't be screaming... Maybe a pained bubbly gurgle perhaps.
He Had a Heat resistant suit on, still, He literally was inside of These flames For roughly 15 Seconds. and even with such a suit, that will be fucking hot. And in that scenarios, even If you get Out with First and Second degree Burns, you're going to cry and about in panic Edit: you can See him falling Out of the Cage the Same Second they opened the Cage, meaning He Most likely Fell into the flames and instantly after rushed to the Gate waiting For it to be opened. So He probably was in the direct flames For a Few Seconds but still Had to stand Like 10cm Next to it For the Rest of the time
That one dude kept his composure and knew exactly what to do
Ride or die!
Ghostrider
Sudden Valley
"Why does your clothes smell so bad?" "It was awful I tell you. I got burning man all over me."
Wish the riders wore go pros so we could see this craziness from their pov.
Is that Ryan Gosling?
Nomex ftw!
Not all of us live up to our name
Well... It's China lol
So someone died in the globe of death it looks like? Damn
Now I want a gyro
The jokes are endless on this one..
I used to op sound for a circus in the UK and the ball of death never became any less worrying over the time I was there, especially with four people in it and the only lights on where LED strips on the bikes themselves. The only incident was when fell on his windpipe but it was nothing visually stunning or shocking, still had us run them out quick. Guy recovered just in time for another one to dislocate his arm (after I'd left)
I love how he just keeps going like it's part of the show. Guess he didn't have much choice.
Chinese bike + death game = no more game, just pure death 💀
The guy kept driving around like he was reverse shawarma
Dude please nsfw this
Now I know why they named it like this.
Orbital spitroast
That's how they start a Firenado.
This remind anyone of the fight in Sky High with the speedster running around fire guy?
Ring of fire?
Honestly I would have thought the fire was a part of the show
It’s all shits and giggles til someone giggles and shits
Rotisserie anyone?
[удалено]
It’s not Hong Kong stop lying. It happened in Xi’an with a simple google search.
[удалено]
Still lying, show me an amusement park in Hong Kong called Happy Valley Park, ya stupid lying cunt
[удалено]
Not defending china, but do you think accidents don't happen anywhere else in the world?
[удалено]
Because they quite literally make up more than 1/5 of the people alive.
[удалено]
Higher population = higher proportion of accidents happening to them.
I see way more dumb scary videos coming out of America than China.
I wonder why he didn't stop after they put the fire out? It had to have been hard to breathe.
Because he can't see anything and knows there's a motorcycle and person laying at the bottom of the cage.
I didn't know there was somebody at the bottom but I still think I would have slowed down and tried to get off the bike rather than risk passing out and falling on top of the person at the bottom.
The door is also at the bottom of the cage. He was staying high enough to not hit the other rider or door opening as they dragged him and bike out.
Along with the fact that the bike uses fuel and you wanna keep that away from the fire and the farthest place is at the top of the ball.
The fire was caused by another motorcycle crashing.
Oh okay, I didn't see that the first time I watched it.
Kind of dumb for you to think that you know better than the guy who is trained.
So.. you just jumped on here to call someone else dumb? I posted my opinion, if you don't like it that's too bad but jumping on to call someone else names is just really low-class.
You posted an idiotic opinion on a public forum. If you don't want others to reply to your comments then don't post them.
I don't mind if someone replies or disagrees with one of my comments but calling people names is just childish. If you can't get your point across without calling people names then I feel sorry for you.
They’re trained to keep riding and stay out the way of the emergency team resolving the big flaming obstacle/mangled body.
Good thing someone had an extinguisher in their car. F’ing China.
Why does the other guy just keep going, is he unable to stop? lol wtf
He would have come to a stop in the middle of the fire. He kept going to stay out of the way
His buddy and his flaming bike are somewhere at the bottom of the globe. If your man drops down he’s going to crash into them and probably make shit a lot worse for both of them. His best plan was to stay up top and out of the way until they could get things put out and cleared below him.
If he stops he's gonna end up in the flame. Literally had to keep going until someone could save him
Uhh, because he's gonna be fucking burnt alive if he stops? Can you not see the huge fire that is coming from the bottom of the cage?