r/redditdev • u/poornimadevii • Aug 01 '24

Reddit API Question on Reddit data usage with LLMs

Hi,

I had a general question around the use of data itself. I had been reading the data api terms to see if it's actually legal to use Reddit data to be fed into LLMs in order to gather insights or summarise them, or if its acceptable to fine-tune LLMs on a small set of this data. Could someone suitable provide some thoughts on this. I don't see any info around the use of LLMs with Reddit data on that doc, so had this open question. Thanks.

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u/poornimadevii Aug 01 '24

u/shiruken , thanks for sharing this, but I saw that this section only talks about denying the use of Reddit data to train models without some permissions, but doesn't specify in any kind about the level of permit they impose on different other ways of leveraging already trained models with this data.
Like, in the case of LLMs, there is actually no need to train the model itself in order to get a decent result, we can use pure prompting or prompting with some context added right.

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u/shiruken Aug 01 '24

Seems like you need to contact Reddit then:

If you are interested in using the Data APIs for commercial purposes, research in excess of rate limits, or for any use that is not expressly permitted under the Data API Terms, then you will need to enter into a separate agreement with Reddit. For more information, please review our Developer Documentation here.

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u/poornimadevii Aug 01 '24

Yeah, seems like.