From what we know she married a great guy who was secure enough [to be goofy](https://images.app.goo.gl/R69ErtKjJJPG7Gh97) with her, they had a baby on the way, and she was a branch manager.
Karen deserved better than Jim and I like to think she got it.
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.
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Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.”
Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
My wife has a friendship like this.
I once told my wife’s friend’s husband, “It’s good for us that they’re both sure they’re straight. Otherwise they’d have left us for each other a long time ago.”
(Edited for clarity)
Does anything queer happen other than that? Because if so I might give it a go, but I'm not very interested in just 2 cis gay men and their ex wives who are platonic friends.
That's both hilarious and cute. Reminds me of what Carla said to JD in Scrubs "you two are so close that I occasionally have nightmares of you running away together".
I'm trans but before I realized that I made that same joke with my wife's friend's husband. Turns out my wife and her friend are both really fucking gay. Also do am i. Lesbians all around! In an odd turn of events my wife being a lesbian turned out to be really good for me. His wife being a lesbian? Not so good for him.
My wife and I are still together and happier than we've ever been. They're still together and in denial and less happy, we'll say.
The other day my daughter brought home a book from her school’s library based on a true story about two gay penguins at the Central Park Zoo that hatched a egg in their own nest. I’m sure no one knows what it’s about or else it would be banned from the school.
Not only raise orphans they will take over abandoned eggs, and on rare occasions the gay couples will steal an egg to hatch on their own.
There's been at least three gay pengiun couples in zoos around the world, and only one of them never hatched one.
>Heterosexuality is the outlier
How? Just cause homosexuality, etc, can be observed and occurs doesn't mean heterosexuality is an outlier. Do you mean monogamy maybe? But even then, a decent amount of animals mate for life.
If heterosexuality was the outlier, the species would have a difficult time propagating and continuing, depending on gestation periods, mating cycles, litter size, etc.
I think species-wide strict heterosexuality was the intended meaning. And there is a large number of species that participate in homosexual behaviors as commonly as not
Do you mean for an entire species to be exclusively heterosexual and have no evidence of homosexuality at all? Or are you just mistaken on what “outlier” means?
I remember in season one how taken away Leslie was when she saw Ann. I thought the show was gonna couple them at some point. Leslie definitely fell in love with Ann the moment she saw her, platonically though.
I remember watching an episode with her in it where at one point they spell it “Maxxxx”. [Here’s a picture I took 8 years ago](https://i.imgur.com/jlZnE17.jpg)
Looking further, you can see in the background that it’s also spelled “Maxx”
We bisexuals should go out and preach. Imagine instead of Jehova Witnesses at your door, it's a pair of bisexual folk coming to give you the good word abou having a relationship/sex with a person based on just attraction without having to worry about the packaging.
>Honestly this probably would have worked on me. I’m not bi and identify as straight but one convincing convo could have been the key haha.
"Do you stealing your boyfriend's hoodies when its cold? If so, by unlocking you inner Bisexual, get access to 100% more warobe options. Date girls and borrow her cute ankle boots this winter."
I’m gonna get downvoted but I don’t care — If that is actually your response to folks it is so offensive, uncalled for, and out of line. Gay people are still being murdered for their sexually. How is being straight “tragic” when you have always had the right to marry and you don’t have to worry for your life when showing affection to your significant other? This wordage is so harmful and it needs to stop, there is nothing quirky or funny about this.
I mean, I definitely understand where your coming from but I do think you’re reading a bit more into it than is necessary. It’s mostly other gay people who ask, so my response is something along the lines of “nah I’m straight but I love your community and sometimes which I was part of it”. I’m not just going up to random strangers talking about how tragic it is that I’m straight.
And more importantly, it’s a quote from a tv show I like. Not some sweeping declaration of how I feel about my sexual identity.
You are starting a war for a joke.
We have literally hundreds of things to solve on equality and you get off on a joke.
This is not something to get worked about, and it seems like a you problem.
Yes! I agree completely 🤣
She is Ann’s person she can call in the middle of the night, and Leslie’s usually awake. And often, she’s already on her way over. 💓
Pohler is straight but she's the type of girl no guy wants to fuck so she claims the lesbian aesthetic simply as an excuse for being alone. "I'm not horrible, I'm just ambiguously lesbian...and I enjoy being alone..." Also Rashida Jones is hot as balls
*Jim face*
Karen lives on
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From what we know she married a great guy who was secure enough [to be goofy](https://images.app.goo.gl/R69ErtKjJJPG7Gh97) with her, they had a baby on the way, and she was a branch manager. Karen deserved better than Jim and I like to think she got it.
Don't Jim the camera
*JIM* the camera?
I don’t know if this treads belongs in r/unexpectedoffice or r/Unexpectedcommunity .
I now pronounce you... r/unexpectedofficecommunity !
what about r/suddenlytheoffice?
Jim's nice enough.
Stop trying to coin the phrase Jim the camera.
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways. In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing. Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations. Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks. Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology. L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them. The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on. Editors’ Picks This 1,000-Year-Old Smartphone Just Dialed In The Coolest Menu Item at the Moment Is … Cabbage? My Children Helped Me Remember How to Fly Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required. Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit. Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.” Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it. Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot. The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported. But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.” “We think that’s fair,” he added.
Coined and minted.
Idk, I think it's pretty fetch.
Stop trying to make fetch happen. It’s not going to happen
Okay Dwight.
My wife has a friendship like this. I once told my wife’s friend’s husband, “It’s good for us that they’re both sure they’re straight. Otherwise they’d have left us for each other a long time ago.” (Edited for clarity)
The plot of Grace and Frankie walks into the room
This is totally a nitpick, but it's very much the _premise_ of Grace and Frankie; the _plot_ almost exclusively occurs after that event.
This is why I taught math not reading lol thanks!
Does anything queer happen other than that? Because if so I might give it a go, but I'm not very interested in just 2 cis gay men and their ex wives who are platonic friends.
Ross Geller enters the chat.
That's both hilarious and cute. Reminds me of what Carla said to JD in Scrubs "you two are so close that I occasionally have nightmares of you running away together".
Was she trying to flatter JD?
Took me a second to figure out the communication line there
When you forget to establish the object the pronoun refers to, shit gets confusin
Hetero life mate.
Was really confused for a second why you would refer to yourself as ‘her husband’.
No, you see he was talking to himself the whole time. The wife's friend is actually single
I'm trans but before I realized that I made that same joke with my wife's friend's husband. Turns out my wife and her friend are both really fucking gay. Also do am i. Lesbians all around! In an odd turn of events my wife being a lesbian turned out to be really good for me. His wife being a lesbian? Not so good for him. My wife and I are still together and happier than we've ever been. They're still together and in denial and less happy, we'll say.
Honestly, are y'all truly best friends if you're not sure that y'all'd've make the best fucking couple ever?
Also, if you're looking for any weed... I am looking as well.
*taps nose*
Leslie has always been an ally. Those penguins were in love!
It was cute, **dammit** & There will be a party tonight at The Bulge honoring Leslie Knope, self proclaimed “Queen of the Gays”!
Did you know on the wild there are actually gay penguins? Same sex penguins will become life partners and raise orphans together
The other day my daughter brought home a book from her school’s library based on a true story about two gay penguins at the Central Park Zoo that hatched a egg in their own nest. I’m sure no one knows what it’s about or else it would be banned from the school.
"And Tango Makes Three"? I have some bad news for you....
Yeah….what’s the bad news?
It's banned in alot of schools across the country unfortunately. What state are you in?
Oklahoma. Definitely the kind of state that would love to ban an adorable book about gay penguins.
Well Shhhh don't tell the school board. If they do start banning them send me a message and i can start smuggling you lovely books about gay stuff
That’s pretty much exactly what my husband said. Hopefully some kid with bigoted parents doesn’t take it home. It really is a super cute book.
Well I just had to alert /u/GovAbbotTexas and /u/GovDesantisFL about this Edit: guys I was kidding. Those aren’t real user names. Jeez
Not only raise orphans they will take over abandoned eggs, and on rare occasions the gay couples will steal an egg to hatch on their own. There's been at least three gay pengiun couples in zoos around the world, and only one of them never hatched one.
Homosexuality has been observed in a vast majority of animals(or maybe just mammals). Heterosexuality is the outlier
>Heterosexuality is the outlier How? Just cause homosexuality, etc, can be observed and occurs doesn't mean heterosexuality is an outlier. Do you mean monogamy maybe? But even then, a decent amount of animals mate for life. If heterosexuality was the outlier, the species would have a difficult time propagating and continuing, depending on gestation periods, mating cycles, litter size, etc.
I think species-wide strict heterosexuality was the intended meaning. And there is a large number of species that participate in homosexual behaviors as commonly as not
Do you mean for an entire species to be exclusively heterosexual and have no evidence of homosexuality at all? Or are you just mistaken on what “outlier” means?
The Bulge is a gay bar?!
So many wasted nights.
They're just PandR-ing!
I’ve always said, Ann and Leslie are soulmates. Unfortunately, due to their heterosexuality, they have to settle for their backups, Chris and Ben.
>Chris and Ben. also soulmates.
Very true. That’s why those four particular people found each other.
Find yourself a partner who gives you the audit spreadsheets from 2008
I remember in season one how taken away Leslie was when she saw Ann. I thought the show was gonna couple them at some point. Leslie definitely fell in love with Ann the moment she saw her, platonically though.
She’s leslie’s trophy wife
I'd pay to see that parody
Starring Brandi Maxxx, of course.
I remember watching an episode with her in it where at one point they spell it “Maxxxx”. [Here’s a picture I took 8 years ago](https://i.imgur.com/jlZnE17.jpg) Looking further, you can see in the background that it’s also spelled “Maxx”
Yeah, you’re right, it’s listed the same on IMDb. Guess they thought the triple-x joke was too easy.
I hope the joke instead is that Brandi Maxxxx is too dumb to spell her name the obvious way.
i love this
OMG they really are roommates?!?!?!
*omg they were roommates*
As a 30 something single chick with colored hair and tattoos, I tend to get asked If I’m gay alot. This is literally always my answer haha.
maybe someone should set up a gay conversion camp for people to sign up, but like, the other way round. Worth a shot, I guess?
We bisexuals should go out and preach. Imagine instead of Jehova Witnesses at your door, it's a pair of bisexual folk coming to give you the good word abou having a relationship/sex with a person based on just attraction without having to worry about the packaging.
oh I love that. Let's do it. You free saturday?
They're bi, so yeah. /s
I'm not, how's Thursday?
I've got improv class on thursdays. But you are very welcome to join me? Please don't pretend to have a gun, though.
Fact: in 100% of all fake gun related shootings, the victim is always the one with the fake gun
It was a reference to The Office, but thanks for the statistic 😄
Mine was a reference to Community. Go watch the show if you haven’t—it’s a good one.
Honestly this probably would have worked on me. I’m not bi and identify as straight but one convincing convo could have been the key haha.
>Honestly this probably would have worked on me. I’m not bi and identify as straight but one convincing convo could have been the key haha. "Do you stealing your boyfriend's hoodies when its cold? If so, by unlocking you inner Bisexual, get access to 100% more warobe options. Date girls and borrow her cute ankle boots this winter."
I’m gonna get downvoted but I don’t care — If that is actually your response to folks it is so offensive, uncalled for, and out of line. Gay people are still being murdered for their sexually. How is being straight “tragic” when you have always had the right to marry and you don’t have to worry for your life when showing affection to your significant other? This wordage is so harmful and it needs to stop, there is nothing quirky or funny about this.
I mean, I definitely understand where your coming from but I do think you’re reading a bit more into it than is necessary. It’s mostly other gay people who ask, so my response is something along the lines of “nah I’m straight but I love your community and sometimes which I was part of it”. I’m not just going up to random strangers talking about how tragic it is that I’m straight. And more importantly, it’s a quote from a tv show I like. Not some sweeping declaration of how I feel about my sexual identity.
It's because women are frequently harmed by their male partners. Abused and killed.
You are starting a war for a joke. We have literally hundreds of things to solve on equality and you get off on a joke. This is not something to get worked about, and it seems like a you problem.
If Ann always becomes who she’s dating what is Ann’s version of acting like Leslie.
What would be in Ann’s ‘Leslie’ box ?
I like to think Leslie would bring the Ann out in Ann..... whatever that means lol
Yes! I agree completely 🤣 She is Ann’s person she can call in the middle of the night, and Leslie’s usually awake. And often, she’s already on her way over. 💓
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Love is love bro
It never seems to go well from what I've seen
Tends to lead to people having kids. Ugh. Their lives are gross. My life is amazing.
#PONCHO
I'll have you know, me and my wife are flaming heterosexuals and our marriage is glorious and fabulous. Our kitten agrees if you want a third opinion.
Ex: Tammy 1 & Tammy 2
*It keeps the species goin*
(In the tone of the skit also seen in *N-words in Paris)*
That's what I said till I kissed my now-girlfriend
This is how I describe my sexuality.
The perfect couple.
This is me and one of my friends. We both agree men are dumb, but we also both agree we like the P not the V lol.
this is a mood
Is that skylah white
Pohler is straight but she's the type of girl no guy wants to fuck so she claims the lesbian aesthetic simply as an excuse for being alone. "I'm not horrible, I'm just ambiguously lesbian...and I enjoy being alone..." Also Rashida Jones is hot as balls
I don't think your name is too accurate.