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Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users (www.theverge.com)
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Reddit’s advertising revenue grew to $315.1 million, while “other” revenue reached $33.2 million on account of “data licensing agreements signed earlier this year.” Both Google and OpenAI have cut deals with Reddit to train their AI models on its posts.

In a letter to shareholders, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman attributed the recent increase in users to the platform’s AI-powered translation feature. Reddit started letting users translate posts into French last year before expanding to Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and German. Now, Huffman says Reddit plans to expand translation to over 30 countries through 2025.

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After selling user generated content to Ai.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't seem like that gravy train will roll on forever

[–] darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

It cannot - more and more content is coming from AI so they are just "relearning" what one of the AI platforms has already produced... the endgame of that is convergence on nothing new being produced from AI