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Steve Huffman on How Reddit Powers A.I. and Rebuilds Itself With It
The use of A.I. for content moderation is revolutionary, Huffman said. "The worst job on the Internet used to be looking at the worst content on the Internet, deciding whether it could be online or not. That job just goes away."
Just like oil powered the industrial age, conversational data is the digital fuel of the A.I. era. Reddit, a 20-year-old platform hosting forums used by roughly 500 million people each week, is one of the internet’s largest reservoirs of online conversation, making it a gold mine for large language models (LLMs) that rely on massive datasets to generate text. “The content on Reddit has, effectively, become like oil,” Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman said at the Fast Company Most Innovative Companies Summit today (May 19) in New York City. “LLMs would not exist as we know them without Reddit.”
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