The Federal Commerce Fee is wanting into Reddit’s AI licensing offers, the corporate in paperwork filed with the Securities and Trade Fee. The corporate, which is within the midst of its Preliminary Public Providing, stated that the regulator notified Reddit officers that it “meant to request info and paperwork” concerning the firm’s AI offers.
It’s not clear why the FTC is probing Reddit’s comparatively new licensing enterprise, nevertheless it appears to be within the early phases of its inquiry. “On March 14, 2024, we obtained a letter from the FTC advising us that the FTC’s employees is conducting a personal inquiry targeted on our sale, licensing, or sharing of user-generated content material with third events to coach AI fashions,” Reddit wrote in a submitting. “Given the novel nature of those applied sciences and industrial preparations, we aren’t stunned that the FTC has expressed curiosity on this space. We don’t imagine that we’ve got engaged in any unfair or misleading commerce observe.”
Reddit’s offers to license its catalog of user-generated content material are a key a part of the corporate’s technique to develop its income because it will get able to . On the day the corporate filed for IPO, the corporate introduced it had reached a cope with Google, which is able to use Reddit information to coach its AI fashions. That association was reportedly value round . The corporate stated it was within the early phases of “exploring” a lot of these offers.
In accordance , different corporations have obtained related letters from the FTC. The regulator has beforehand proven an curiosity within the present wave of generative AI upstarts and their relationships with massive tech corporations, The FTC is at present Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon over their investments into distinguished AI startups.
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