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

submitted 2 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.

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[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 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.

[–] wave_walnut@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 7 points 2 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?

[–] YeetTheRich@dataterm.digital 1 points 2 years ago

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