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“Huffman characterized the Reddit protesters as a small but vocal cadre of angry users who are not in touch with the greater Reddit community.”

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[–] BrownTown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I guess the subreddits weren't committed enough to the whole blackout thing. :/ It's a shame really. Situations like these show that companies can get away with almost anything if they care more about profits than their image.

[–] Mac@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But with artificial intelligence-powered large language models like Microsoft-backed ChatGPT and Google's Bard, a massive corpus of conversations is being hoovered up. And in return, Reddit receives very little, he said.

If they take our content and build businesses on it, that's an issue," Huffman said. "If they build businesses such that people come to Reddit less, that's an issue."

"Our content" my ass. This is the same as the CEO thinking they're entitled to the fruits of your labor.