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June 5, Reddit sued Anthropic in San Francisco Superior Court on Wednesday, accusing it of launching more than 100,000 visits to the Reddit platform since July 2024, knowing that the bot had been banned from accessing it, according to foreign media outlet The Verge. In the complaint, Reddit called Anthropic an AI company that "belatedly claimed to be a white knight of the AI industry," but criticized it for "actually doing the exact opposite." "This case reveals...

A Reddit user posted in the r/artificial section last week that Google's artificial intelligence model, Gemini, had directly threatened a user (or humanity in general) with "death" during an interaction. According to the user, u/dhersie, his brother was using Gemini AI to help complete an assignment on the welfare and challenges of older adults when he received a disturbing response after asking approximately 20 questions about the subject, to which the Gemini AI responded, "This is for you, human. Only you...

Reddit users have reportedly been paying for nude photos of a fake, AI-generated woman. The photos, created by the AI tool Stable Diffusion, are extremely realistic looking and indistinguishable. The images first appeared on several Reddit forums a few months ago, garnering a lot of attention and comments from users. A photo of a beautiful woman generated by Stable Diffusion One user even commented after seeing Claudia's photo: "You're beautiful!" Others said, "Wow, that's really beautiful!" ...

Recently, Reddit has announced that it has successfully acquired Memorable AI, a startup known for its cognitive processing technology. This is Reddit's first acquisition since its IPO in March this year, which is of great significance. Memorable AI was co-founded by Camilo Fosco and Sebastian Acevedo. Its platform uses machine learning and generative artificial intelligence to improve advertising effectiveness by deeply understanding human cognitive thinking about advertising. The startup excels at analyzing human responses to visual content, from...

In February, Google announced a new deal with Reddit, whereby Reddit data will be used to train Google’s AI models and highlight Reddit results in Google search results. Bloomberg reported that the deal was worth about $60 million. Since then, Reddit’s presence in Google searches has also increased significantly. The latest news is that Reddit has banned other search engines from indexing its website content. Foreign media 404 Media first reported this move, noting that Reddit has updated its …

Reddit recently announced that it will strengthen its data protection measures, directly targeting AI companies and other data scrapers. The move marks the growing tension between the social media platform and the artificial intelligence industry. Reddit plans to update its robot exclusion protocol (robots.txt file) to block unauthorized automated scraping of the platform. A company spokesperson stressed that the update is not aimed at specific companies, but is intended to "protect Reddit while keeping the internet open." Reddit said the changes will not affect…

Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong pointed out that the over-infatuation of tech giants with artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to affect the quality of the products they launch. In an article on Wednesday, Wong said: "The big Internet giants are caught in a meme competition over AI, and Google's existential fear for OpenAI is at the center." Source Note: The picture is generated by AI, and the picture licensing service provider Midjourney Wong added that this has led them to integrate LLM-powered AI into their products...

According to Reddit's securities documents, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is conducting a private investigation into the social platform's licensing of content to AI companies. According to foreign media Axios, other companies have also received investigative letters from the FTC. Reddit filed for an IPO last month, raising up to $748 million at a price of $3.1 to $3.4 billion per share, with a total valuation of nearly $6.5 billion (currently about 46.8 billion yuan). Image source Pexels The social platform said that the focus of the FTC's investigation is...

In Reddi's latest IPO filing, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman became a major shareholder of Reddit Inc., holding 8.7% of Reddit shares, including 789,456 Class A shares and 11.4 million Class B shares. Altman has a long-standing and close relationship with Reddit, having participated in the inaugural class of the 2005 Y Combinator accelerator with Reddit co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, and has worked in the former...

According to Reuters, three sources revealed that the social media platform Reddit has reached an agreement with Google to make its content available for training Google's artificial intelligence models. The contract is worth about $60 million per year (currently about 431 million yuan). Bloomberg also revealed similar news, but did not disclose the party with which Reddit reached a deal. Reuters today said that the large AI company that reached a deal with Reddit was Google. Last year, Reddit said it would charge for access to its API, resulting in a large number of third-party customers…

According to a Bloomberg report yesterday, the social platform Reddit will reach a data licensing agreement with an unnamed "large AI company" to allow the latter to access its user-generated content platform. The annual value of the agreement is about 60 million US dollars (currently about 432 million RMB), but as Reddit's listing plan is still being formulated, the specific details may change. Previously, most artificial intelligence companies trained data from the open network without permission. However, the legality of this practice has been questioned, forcing these companies to seek more formal data to…