FTC Probes Reddit Over Data Licensing Deals for AI Training

The US Federal Trade Commission is probing Reddit Inc. over its deals licensing user data to AI companies, the company disclosed.

Reddit said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it received a letter March 14 advising “that the FTC’s staff is conducting a non-public inquiry focused on our sale, licensing, or sharing of user-generated content with third parties to train AI models.”

“Given the novel nature of these technologies and commercial arrangements, we are not surprised that the FTC has expressed interest in this area,” according to Friday’s filing. “We do not believe that we have engaged ...