Reddit versus OpenAI bodes well for content owners

Owners are driven to act when scraping hits their bottom line

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Reddit versus OpenAI bodes well for content owners

Scraping web data is an easy way to train AI models, but content owners object to the practice. With no legislative end in sight, Reddit's deal with OpenAI marks a way forward, says Travers Smith's James Longster.

Generative AI systems need huge volumes of data to train the large language models underpinning their offerings. This isn't news to anyone with an understanding of the technology, but a critical qu...

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