{"id":5814,"date":"2024-03-20T09:27:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T01:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=5814"},"modified":"2024-03-20T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T01:27:33","slug":"%e7%be%8e%e5%9b%bd-ftc-%e5%b7%b2%e5%b0%b1-reddit-%e5%90%91-ai-%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8%e5%88%86%e4%ba%ab%e7%94%a8%e6%88%b7%e7%94%9f%e6%88%90%e5%86%85%e5%ae%b9%e5%8f%91%e8%b5%b7%e9%9d%9e%e5%85%ac%e5%bc%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/5814.html","title":{"rendered":"The US FTC has launched a private investigation into Reddit&#039;s sharing of user-generated content with AI companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-vmark=\"f7d1\">according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/reddit\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Reddit<\/a> Securities documents revealed that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating the social platform for licensing content to AI companies.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e9%9d%9e%e5%85%ac%e5%bc%80%e8%b0%83%e6%9f%a5\" title=\"[Sees articles with [closed investigation] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Closed investigation<\/a>According to foreign media Axios, other companies have also received investigation letters from the FTC.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"44fb\">Reddit applied last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ipo\" title=\"_OTHER ORGANISER\" target=\"_blank\" >IPO<\/a>, raising up to US$748 million at a price of US$3.1 to US$3.4 billion per share, with a total valuation of nearly US$6.5 billion (currently approximately RMB 46.8 billion).<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"e5a2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5815\" title=\"460e959a-7ac7-468a-97a4-153bc24f0465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/460e959a-7ac7-468a-97a4-153bc24f0465.jpg\" alt=\"460e959a-7ac7-468a-97a4-153bc24f0465\" width=\"867\" height=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image source: Pexels<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"9df9\">The social platform stated,<span class=\"accentTextColor\">The FTC&#039;s investigation focuses on Reddit&#039;s practice of selling, licensing, and sharing user-generated content to third parties as AI training material.<\/span>The FTC will ask the social platform to provide more information and documents in the future to better understand the transaction.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"ce56\">According to foreign media reports, Reddit has reached an AI training data licensing agreement with Google, which will generate US$60 million (currently approximately RMB 432 million) in revenue each year.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"0ca9\">In Reddit\u2019s view, it\u2019s natural for the FTC to focus on this new type of transaction;<span class=\"accentTextColor\">Reddit doesn&#039;t think its actions violated U.S. consumer protection laws<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"990b\">Reddit&#039;s revenue last year reached $800 million, 98% of which came from advertising. It is working hard to expand its revenue channels, and in addition to selling AI training materials, it has also begun charging for APIs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is conducting a private investigation into the social platform's licensing of content to AI companies, according to Reddit securities filings. According to Axios, other companies have also received letters of inquiry from the FTC. Reddit filed for an IPO last month, raising up to $748 million at $3.1-$3.4 billion per share, for a total valuation of nearly $6.5 billion (currently around RMB 46.8 billion). The social media platform said the FTC's investigation focuses on Reddit's practice of selling, licensing, and sharing user-generated content as AI training material to third parties, and that the FTC will be asking the social media platform to provide a list of its user-generated content to third parties.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1331,1269,1761],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-5814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ipo","tag-reddit","tag-1761"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5814"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=5814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}