Thu. 07/25 – Reddit’s Throwing Elbows Again

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Once again, Reddit looks like it’s not worried about upsetting people. New generative search on Bing, new models from Mistral and a new video model from Stability. But did Runway train it’s video models on YouTube videos? We might have a smoking gun. But what if the dream of synthetic data for AI training is a mirage? Sponsors: Lumen.me/ride Links: Google's Exclusive Reddit Access (404Media) Microsoft unveils Bing Generative Search — enhanced with AI, it's a complete overhaul of traditional search (WindowsCentral) Mistral shocks with new open model Mistral Large 2, taking on Llama 3.1 (VentureBeat) Stability AI steps into a new gen AI dimension with Stable Video 4D (VentureBeat) Runway Ripped Off YouTube Creators (404Media) The problem of ‘model collapse’: how a lack of human data limits AI progress (Financial Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme right home for Thursday, July 25th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Once again, Reddit looks like it's not worried about upsetting people.
0:12.0	New generative search on bing, new models for... looks like it's not worried about upsetting people.
0:12.8	New generative search on bing, new models for Mistral, and a new video model from Stability,
0:17.8	but did Runway train its video models on YouTube videos?
0:21.6	We might have a smoking gun there. But what if the dream of
0:24.8	synthetic data for AI training is just a mirage? Here's what you missed today in the
0:28.7	world of tech.
0:32.0	Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing.
0:38.0	Bing, Duck Duck Go, and others are not showing recent results from Reddit, quoting 404 media.
0:45.1	Google is now the only search engine that can surface results from Reddit making one of the
0:49.0	web's most valuable repositories of user-generated content exclusive to the internet's already
0:53.7	dominant search engine. If you use Bing Duck-Duck-Go Mogeek, Quant, or any other
0:59.6	alternative search engine that doesn't rely on Google's indexing and search Reddit by using
1:04.3	site Reddit.com you will not see any results from the last week. Duck
1:09.6	Go is currently turning up seven links when searching
1:12.8	Reddit but provides no data on where the links go or why.
1:16.1	Instead, only saying that, quote,
1:17.9	we would like to show you a description here,
1:19.7	but the site won't allow us.
1:21.6	Older results will still show up but these search engines
1:24.4	are no longer able to crawl Reddit meaning that Google is the only search engine
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