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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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[–] Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm looking forward to LLMs copying the gibberish german communities like to use. It is very common there to translate things word for word without any regard for correct german grammar or understandibility.

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

Who would have thought, that it would one day be a weapon against ai.

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's awesome. I hadn't heard about that. I love silly shit like that! :)