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Reddit stock drops 9% as Google AI content deal nears expiration
qz.com/reddit-stock-google-ai-content-deal-072226
QuartzReddit stock drops 9% as Google AI content deal nears expirationReddit's $60 million-a-year deal with Google is ending soon, and the company is reassessing whether renewing it makes sense
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
I don’t see why Google would renew. The current content is AI slop.
Replying to @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
Have you seen Google’s output lately? Their bar is pretty low, I’d say.
Replying to @NikkiDimes@lemmy.world
The only thing I use Google’s AI for is to get text out of images. Which I’ll give it credit for it does very well even with extremely blurry content
Replying to @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
That was more or less the original comment back when they started. Bots were a thing on Reddit before of course but they really started getting out in hand around 2021 which was long before the deal.
Or… why would they renew since they downloaded all the old “useful” content? (and the new content is useless)
It’s like downloading a torrent, you may seed a bit, but you would never download it over and over again.
Replying to @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
They’re making Gemini, it’s obvious that they wouldn’t even know quality if they saw it!