Is Reddit Behind ChatGPT And Bard's Success? Here Is Why ...
The success of OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard have made headlines in the artificial intelligence (AI) world. However, what many do not know is the role Reddit may have played in their development.
According to recent reports, Reddit's API data may have been used to train these chatbots, making it one of the first social media platforms to charge for its data from companies developing new chatbots.
Many chatbots are trained with the help of social media websites like Reddit, and both ChatGPT and Bard are no exceptions. They were trained using Reddit's data to download and process user data with the help of its API.
"The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable. But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free," said Reddit's CEO Steve Huffman, as quoted in The New York Times.
According to him, Reddit's data has helped train many language models and is vital for the success of these models. Therefore, Reddit has decided to charge third parties for access to its API data.
The publication also mentioned that both Microsoft and Google scrape data from Reddit to provide accurate search results, and in exchange, Reddit's position in search engine results page ranks higher and gets more visitors. However, there is no official confirmation on this yet.
In conclusion, Reddit's API data may have been a significant contributing factor in the success of certain chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard. Its decision to charge for access to its data could also impact the development of future chatbots.
