Reddit and the AI turf war

Sites like Reddit and Twitter seek to capitalise on AI-fuelled demand for their once-free platform data.

Are we entering a new ‘pay-to-play’ era in which artificial-intelligence (AI) developers must pay for internet data to train their models—even when that content is generated for free? We discuss with Kelvin Lwin, chief executive officer of ALIN.ai.

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