Online community network Reddit wants to start getting paid by large artificial-intelligence companies that scrape data off its message boards to help train AI products. In an interview with the New York Times, Reddit founder and Chief Executive Steve Huffman said that the “Reddit corpus of data is really valuable. But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” Generative AI has gone mainstream this past year with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT — backed by a multibillion-dollar investment from Microsoft Corp. MSFT. AI uses massive amounts of data drawn from a site’s…
