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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)

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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[-] RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They hope to monetize the content by selling it to AI companies.

To be honest, if this field really picks up, they(Reddit, twitter) might not even need the users anymore. That level of classified content is the real good mine

[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They'll need the users if they hope to keep generating new content though.

Scraping the data becomes less relevant the older the data gets

[-] RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think that matters much if the purpose is LLM. Not for years anyway. Sure, the information might be stale, but the language part remains the same

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