[CobrastanJorji]

Reddit was an interesting case here. They knew that they had particularly good AI training data, and they were able to hold it hostage from the Google crawler, which was an awfully high risk play given how important Google search results are to Reddit ads, but they likely knew that Reddit search results were also really important to Google. I would love to be able to watch those negotiations on each side; what a crazy high stakes negotiation that must've been.

[mattlondon]

Particularly good training data?

You can't mean the bottom-of-the-barrel dross that people post on Reddit, so not sure what data you are referring to? Click-stream?

[CobrastanJorji]

Say what you will, but there's a lot of good answers to real questions people have that's on Reddit. There's a whole thing where people say "oh Google search results are bad, but if you append the word 'REDDIT' to your search, you'll get the right answer." You can see that most of these agents rely pretty heavily from stuff they find on Reddit.

Of course, that's also a big reason why Google search results suggest putting glue on pizza.