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Yes, but it could have been handled better. If ai was the problem they could have gone the route of api only being allowed after an application process so they know who is using it and everyone else trying to use it would get denied until they were assigned a key
100% and they also didn’t need to be total tools about it. giving a month window is a joke, being snarky assholes answering AMAs, telling their user base that profitability is the only thing that matters to them.
Surprising nobody, Reddit continues to make really awful business decisions. This is just another nail in their coffin.
This right here. They could have made a licensing agreement that is based on classification your use falls into. Apps has one pricing model, llm has another. This is just lazy and greedy.
I'm thinking, that they want to sell the generated data to AI companies as training data - and AI generated content would nullify that
edit: and obviously currently everyone can suck their data for free - although I don't know how that should be different with their changes, if I just use a web scraper