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Reddit and the End of Online ‘Community’ (nymag.com)

submitted 3 years ago by wave_walnut@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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A standoff between the site and some of its most devoted users exposes an existential dilemma.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

My speculation is that they want to charge LLMs like ChatGPT, especially for training. Those devs basically want to access every conversation on Reddit.

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[–] wave_walnut@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

I guess too. IPO might be for sale to AI big tech.

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[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 7 points 3 years ago

What's weird, it doesn't make sense even then. I feel like it started as a simple miscalculation by Spez which he took personally. I mean, the part he insulted the Apollo dev is clearly that, but maybe the whole thing as well?

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[–] YeetTheRich@dataterm.digital 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Is there anything stopping an organization with programming talent from accessing all of Reddit via http and bypassing the API fees?

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[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago

Google Scholar does just that stoppage, for example. It'd be cheaper to pay API fees.

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