Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the internet forum site, the exec doubled down on accusations against the developer behind the well-liked third-party […]
  • crdz@lemmy.oneEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    So in the article it seems that reddit is banking on getting money from the help in training AI models, but what if everyone started using scripts to change their posts and then ultimately ruining the model for AI. Wouldn’t those companies then not want to use those API for reddit and then ultimately losing everything too?

      • crdz@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I wonder if we could make an instance for that like reddit post history to be parsed so things can be found but then taken off reddit so the traffic would leave there and only come to lemmy… But then again that could also become disastrous with all the not helpful comments lol

    • Snazz@kbin.social
      6·
      2 years ago

      Yup, my entire post history (such as it is) will be "Lorem Ipsum"ed before I delete the account.