A look at Vana, which raised $20M to let users get paid to share their Reddit posts and other data to train AI models; Reddit banned Vana’s subreddit (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
A look at Vana, which raised $20M to let users get paid to share their Reddit posts and other data to train AI models; Reddit banned Vana's subreddit  —  A startup, Vana, says it wants users to get paid for training data  —  In the generative AI boom, data is the new oil.