The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is probing Reddit’s plan to let artificial intelligence (AI) firms utilize user-generated content to train their software, according to the social media company’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing Friday.
The inquiry comes just days before Reddit is slated to complete its initial public offering, after filing for it last month.
Reddit said it received the letter from the FTC Thursday, according to the SEC filing, but clarified the company was not “surprised” by the inquiry.
Reddit said the FTC is conducting “a non-public inquiry focused on our sale, licensing, or sharing of user-generated content with third parties to train AI models. Given the novel nature of these technologies and commercial arrangements, we are not surprised that the FTC has expressed interest in this area.”
Lina Khan is doing pretty good work in my opinion. It would be a shame to lose that kind of talent under a republican administration.
Absolutely. FTC finally has some balls
If Dolt 45 makes it into office we have a whole fucktonne more to worry about than social media scraping.
We need more people like Lina Khan!