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I 100% can see it easily selling for that much.
You want to know why it's worth that much?
Petabytes of raw training Data for LLMs. Arguably atm reddit us one of the better gold mines of LLM training data on the internet, bazillion of posts already formatted as post-response chains, which is the exact type if format an LLM wants to train on.
Can you imagine how valuable those servers loaded with posts are to a company like OpenAI, Google, or Microsoft?
5 billion is quite reasonable to harvest every reddit post that has ever been made ever and cut it off from your competitors.
@pixxelkick @ardi60 Well, if anyone wants to buy it for that purpose, then I just hope they remember to screen out the more NSFW parts of Reddit.
Otherwise, their bots are going to start giving some rather unfortunate responses to customer questions...
I am looking forward to the hilarity of it for a while though.
"Cooking bot, i have found this cucumber i need to use before it gets bad. What can i do with it?"
"Shove it up your rectum"
Could lead to a lot of interesting lawsuits and let a lot of MBA bros look rather stupid.