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AI Explained • August 8, 2026

AI Training Data: The Great Pillage of the Internet

The generative AI boom did not begin with a blank page. It was built on decades of human work: articles, photographs, videos, software code, forum discussions, product reviews, personal stories and countless other fragments of digital culture. Together, that material became AI training data. Most of it was not created for machine learning. Developers answered […]

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AI Industry • June 28, 2026

Reddit Is Turning Human Conversation Into a Wall Street Business

Reddit is one of those platforms people use without really thinking about it. You Google a question, click a Reddit thread, read a stranger’s oddly specific answer, and leave. No account. No subscription. No loyalty ritual. And yet, that tiny interaction plugs into one of the most valuable datasets on the modern internet: 20 years […]

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